The 1,795th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed on Wednesday, 31 October 2012 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1...
The 1,795th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed on Wednesday, 31 October 2012 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:41 Moscow time (09:41 Paris time).
Arianespace and its Russian partners report that the Progress cargo spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for another mission to the International Space Station. This was the eleventh Soyuz family mission in 2012.
With the introduction of Soyuz at the Guiana Space Center (CSG) and its successful historic launch on 21 October 2011, this famed Russian medium-class launch vehicle became an integral part of the European launch vehicle fleet, together with the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and the lightweight Vega.
Offered to the commercial market, the Soyuz in French Guiana is Europe's reference medium-class launch vehicle for governmental and commercial missions.
