Russian carrier rocket Soyuz successfully launched into orbit Spanish telecommunications satellite, reports channel “Russia 24″. The launch took place from the spaceport in French Guiana and became the first this year.
in addition, for the first time from Kourou in orbit a satellite weighing over three tons. The apparatus shall provide signal transmission for subscribers in Spain, Portugal, the Canary Islands and in South America. This year it is planned to carry out 11 launches.
the Launch took place in at the Guiana space center at 04:03 Moscow time. After 9 minutes, 22 seconds regular has passed the separation of the upper stage and spacecraft from the third stage booster. 32 minutes after launch spacecraft cleanly separated from the upper stage “Fregat-MT” in the geosynchronous transfer orbit.
the Customer launch of the device Hispasat AG-1 was made by the Spanish company HISPASAT.
the Guiana space center, European spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana. Since the early 70-ies of the last century, the GCC is used for spacecraft launches by launch vehicle family “Arian”. The cosmodrome has been used to promote a joint European space programs.
the Russian-European project “Soyuz” at the Guiana space center began in 2003, when at the governmental level the decision was made to launch the Soyuz from the European spaceport in French Guiana. In the framework of the decisions taken was signed a number of intergovernmental agreements which provided the legal basis for signing contracts on creation of ground infrastructure of the Union.
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