A Russian Soyuz rocket lit up the night over the edge of the Amazon Friday night, embarking on its first-every Geostationary Transfer Orbit mission out of French Guiana, requiring the maximum possible performance out of the Soyuz ST-B rocket and Fregat-MT upper stage.
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A Russian Soyuz rocket lit up the night over the edge of the Amazon on Friday, embarking on its first-ever Geostationary Transfer Orbit mission out of French Guiana, requiring the maximum possible performance of the Soyuz ST-B rocket and Fregat-MT upper stage.
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A Russian Soyuz rocket lit up the night over the edge of the Amazon on Friday, embarking on its first-ever Geostationary Transfer Orbit mission out of French Guiana, requiring the maximum possible performance of the Soyuz ST-B rocket and Fregat-MT upper stage.
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A Russian-built Soyuz rocket is counting down to liftoff from its equatorial launch pad at the Guiana Space Center Friday night on the rocket’s first-ever Geostationary Transfer Orbit mission from French Guiana.
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The Hispasat 36W-1 satellite, enshrouded in its protective payload fairing, rolled to the ELS Launch Complex on January 24, 2017 to be hoisted atop its Soyuz ST-B rocket for a final testing sequence prior to a nighttime blastoff on the first GTO-delivery by the Russian workhorse from its equatorial launch site.
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A ‘topless’ Soyuz ST-B rocket, still missing its payload, moves from its MIK Assembly Facility to the ELS Launch Complex at the Guiana Space Center to enter final preparations for its first mission from French Guiana targeting a Geostationary Transfer Orbit for the delivery of the Hispasat 36W-1 satellite.
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Hispasat 36W-1, the first satellite to use the European SmallGEO Satellite Platform, arrives at the Guiana Space Center to undergo several weeks of final processing for liftoff atop a Soyuz rocket as part Arianespace’s year-opening mission in 2017.
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