October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... then be a technique that could feasibly be applied to other targets should the need arise. Planned to be launched by a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, AIM will have a projected launch mass of 800kg – less than...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
...-saver) and using the Soyuz spacecrafts as our foundation. The landing module can be developed using existing Fregat technology. The Moon on a budget Thirteen heavy rocket launches would be required to build the base, and a total...
October 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... Indian Constellation (NAVIC). Illustration showing two European in-orbit validation Galileo navigation satellites separating from their Fregat upper stage. However, signals from GNSS systems are vulnerable and need to be augmented for accuracy...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... a technical partial failure when one of its payloads, the D-STAR Phoenix 1 cube, remained attached to its Fregat M upper stage. It is entirely feasible that a single launch may fly with 50 or so of a constellation’s satellites – effectively placing...
13 May 2016
Arianespace's Next Soyuz mission begins payload integration with Galileo spacecraft.
... in 2011 – Daniele Gedminaite from Lithuania and Alizee Schreoder from Luxembourg - are then to be mated atop Soyuz’ Fregat upper stage and encapsulated in the protective payload fairing. Danielė Gedminaite's winning drawing The satellites were...
25 August 2021
Russia's Luna-25 mission postponed over 'problems during testing'
... 2022," Roscosmos told Russian News Agency site, TASS, last week. Initially scheduled to launch in October on a Soyuz-2-1b Fregat rocket, little has been released about the problem, other than it involves the landing system. "We have...
