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 ...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... probe on a transfer orbit to Mars. In November 2005, ESA’s Venus Express mission was likewise smoothly launched aboard a Soyuz-Fregat vehicle. Each partner has found its respective position in this cooperation with relative ease, while still...
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
...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, ...
13 May 2016
Arianespace's Next Soyuz mission begins payload integration with Galileo spacecraft.
...from Luxembourg - are then to be mated atop Soyuz’ Fregat upper stage and encapsulated in the protective payload ...built ELS launch complex at Europe’s Spaceport – with Arianespace’s Soyuz carrying out a nearly 3-hour, 48-minute mission to place ...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... will 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...
