Tag: Fregat
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Live coverage: Soyuz launches on 13th flight from French Guiana
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with two Galileo navigation satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Soyuz launches two more Galileo satellites
The Soyuz rocket carrying the 11th and 12th satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation program lifted off at 1151:56 GMT (6:51:56 a.m.; 8:51:56 a.m. local time) from French Guiana. ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Two more satellites joined Europe’s Galileo navigation fleet in orbit Thursday after launch from French Guiana aboard…
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Thales, Arianespace win repeat business with O3b
Artist’s concept of O3b satellites in orbit. Credit: Thales Alenia Space Armed with $460 million in fresh financing to grow its broadband communications capacity, O3b Networks has selected Thales Alenia Space to build eight new satellites and Arianespace to launch at least four of them aboard a Soyuz rocket in 2018. The contracts will allow…
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Soyuz booster pointed skyward for Galileo launch
One day after a Soyuz crew transport rolled out to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a similar Russian booster made a comparable journey Monday halfway around the world in tropical French Guiana for liftoff Thursday with two European Galileo navigation satellites. Missing its payload and Fregat upper stage, the Soyuz rocket…
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Photos: Zenit rocket soars on perhaps its last launch
A Zenit rocket fired away from a Kazakh launch pad Friday with a Russian weather satellite, and the launch marked what could be the Ukrainian-made booster’s final flight. One more Zenit rocket is built for launch of a Russian astronomical telescope in 2017, but Russian authorities are considering switching the payload to a Proton launcher.…
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Russian weather satellite lifts off aboard Zenit rocket
A weather satellite to help civilian and military forecasters track storm systems over Russia’s vast territory launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday aboard a Ukrainian-built Zenit rocket, perhaps on its final flight as Russian-Ukrainian relations sour and demand wanes for the 1980s-era launcher. The Elektro-L 2 weather satellite, enclosed inside the Zenit rocket’s nose…
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Zenit rocket raised on launch pad for possible final flight
In the run up to what may be the final flight of a Zenit launcher, a Russian-Ukrainian creation that represented a new age of Soviet-era rocketry, ground crews transferred the powerful booster to a launch pad Wednesday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The Zenit rocket reached its launch pad, part of Baikonur’s Complex 45 site, Wednesday…
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First satellite launched for Russia’s new missile warning network
Russia launched an early warning satellite Tuesday, deploying the first in a new fleet of military satellites to detect missile launches heading for Russian territory. The secretive payload blasted off at 0634 GMT (1:34 a.m. EST) aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military facility in northern Russia’s Arkhangelsk region, according to a…
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Launch brings Galileo navigation system into double digits
A Soyuz rocket lifted off from French Guiana at 0208:10 GMT Friday (10:08:10 p.m. EDT) with Europe’s next two Galileo navigation satellites. Credit: ESA–Manuel Pedoussaut, 2015 A Russian rocket released two Galileo navigation satellites nearly 15,000 miles above Earth early Friday, adding to a growing fleet giving Europe an independent space-based positioning system tracking automobiles,…
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Live coverage: Soyuz launches to expand Europe’s navigation system
Video provided by Arianespace Mission Status Center Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with two Galileo navigation satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.