The 1,727th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle, Moiniya, occurred last Tuesday, October 23rd, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. The lift-off occurred at 8:30 a.m., Moscow time. Starsem, Arianespace and their Russian partners all report the government’s spacecraft was accurately placed in target orbit. This launch came directly after the successful Globalstar telecom satellite flight on October 21st. Starsem plans several additional missions in the coming months. Such will include the launch of the Radarsat-2 observation satellite and the Giove-B satellite.
Now that the Soyuz is at the Guiana Space Center, this Russian medium-class launch vehicle becomes an integral member of the European launch fleet. The Soyuz joins the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and the lightweight Vega. The Starsem shareholders include Arianespace, Astrium, the Russian Federal Space Agency and the Samara Space Center—Cedex, France
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