Tag: Fregat
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Photos: Soyuz dashes away from French Guiana launch pad
A Russian Soyuz rocket topped with two European Galileo navigation satellites soared into orbit before dawn Tuesday, vaulting through low clouds hanging over its jungle launch base in French Guiana. The 46-meter (151-foot-tall) rocket lifted off at 5:48 a.m. French Guiana time (0848 GMT; 4:48 a.m. EDT), adding the 13th and 14th satellites to Europe’s…
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Soyuz launch adds two more satellites to Galileo navigation fleet
A Soyuz rocket blasted off at 0848 GMT (4:48 a.m. EDT; 5:48 a.m. French Guiana time) Tuesday from the European-run spaceport in French Guiana. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Piron Two more Galileo satellites successfully catapulted into space from the French Guiana jungle aboard a Soyuz rocket Tuesday, putting Europe’s…
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Live coverage: Soyuz rocket lifts off with new Galileo satellites
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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Timeline for Soyuz launch 13th and 14th Galileo satellites
Follow the key events of the Soyuz rocket’s ascent into orbit from the Guiana Space Center with two satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system. A listing of exact times for the flight’s major events is posted below. Data source: Arianespace T-0:00:03: Engines at Full Thrust The five main engines of the Soyuz rocket’s core stage…
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Next pair of Galileo navigation satellites encapsulated for launch
The next two Galileo satellites were encapsulated for next week’s launch Wednesday. Photo credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon Europe’s nearly $8 billion Galileo navigation system, an analog to the U.S. GPS satellite network, is hitting a stride in production and launches, with another two spacecraft encapsulated Wednesday inside the…
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Next pair of Galileo navigation satellites encapsulated for launch
The next two Galileo satellites were encapsulated for next week’s launch Wednesday. Photo credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon Europe’s nearly $8 billion Galileo navigation system, an analog to the U.S. GPS satellite network, is hitting a stride in production and launches, with another two spacecraft encapsulated Wednesday inside the…
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Faulty bracket leaves Norwegian satellite grounded
Artist’s concept of the Norsat 1 microsatellite in orbit. Credit: ESA/T. Abrahamsen Officials from the Norwegian Space Center are looking for another launch opportunity for a microsatellite designed to track ship traffic and study space weather after engineers determined it could not safely be attached to a Soyuz rocket set for liftoff Friday. Officials decided…
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Arianespace adds 12th launch to this year’s manifest
File photo of a Soyuz launch from French Guiana with two satellites for the Galileo navigation system. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – G. Barbaste Arianespace will fit in a launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana in May to deliver two more European Galileo navigation satellites to orbit, giving the…
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Glonass navigation system reinforced by Soyuz launch
A Soyuz rocket blasted off from Russia’s northern cosmodrome Sunday, adding another satellite to the nation’s Glonass navigation fleet to replace an aging spacecraft. The Glonass M platform launched at 0021 GMT Sunday (7:21 p.m. EST Saturday) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military facility in the Arkhangelsk region about 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of…
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Soyuz/Galileo launch timeline
Follow the key events of the Soyuz rocket’s ascent into orbit from the Guiana Space Center with two satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system. A listing of exact times for the flight’s major events is posted below. Data source: Arianespace T-0:00:03: Engines at Full Thrust The five main engines of the Soyuz rocket’s core stage…