March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
Euclid is due for launch on a Soyuz-Fregat from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, by mid-2021. The optical/near-infrared survey mission, which is ...
23 May 2016
Soyuz’ latest mission for Europe ready for launch tomorrow
... have been completed at Arianespace’s new Spaceport processing facility, which has fuelled the Russian built Fregat upper stage. Fregat is designed for injecting large payloads into a geosynchronous orbit and has enabled Soyuz to perform a full...
25 May 2016
Successful liftoff for Soyuz
...’s true position in the Solar System, now has 14 satellites in orbit. The separation of the satellites from the Fregat fourth stage of the launcher went by the book and the coming days will see a careful sequence...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... a Soyuz-U vehicle inaugurated the commercial use of the Fregat stage from Baikonur to launch two Cluster II spacecraft for...Express mission was likewise smoothly launched aboard a Soyuz-Fregat vehicle. Each partner has found its respective position in...
22 April 2016
Arianespace's Soyuz Launch Scheduled for Later Today
... demonstrator CubeSats, and the Microscope scientific satellite. To deploy these passengers, four burns will be performed by Soyuz' Fregat upper stage, releasing the payloads in low Earth orbits at three different altitudes. Flight VS14 will have...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
... be on Cheops tomorrow as it heads for a dawn/dusk orbit at an altitude of 700 kilometres. Also hitching a ride on the Soyuz-Fregat launcher will be the first satellite of the Italian space agency ASI’s Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation constellation...
