Two overclocking blocks “Frigate” shipped to Guyan Space Center

From the sea port of St. Petersburg to French Guiana, containers with two accelerated blocks “Fregat-MT” developing a scientific and production association named after SA Lavochkina (part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”). They are intended for use in the upcoming start-up campaigns, the operator of which is the European supplier of the Arianespace start-up services.

Overclocking block “Frigate-MT” is a modification of an overclocking block “Frigate” for launches from the Guiangic Space Center and provides the entire process of removing spacecraft in accordance with the flight task without interference from the Earth. The possibility of starting a payload with four cosmodromes (Baikonur, Plesetsk, East, GCC) in different geographic areas – one of the explicit competitive advantages of the product on the world market.

The Russian-European Project “” Union “in the Gwiang Space Center” began in 2003, when at the government level it was decided on the launch of the Soyuz-Art family of a family of a European cosmodrome in French Guiana. As part of the decisions made A number of intergovernmental agreements that laid a legal framework for signing contracts for the creation of the ground infrastructure of the Soyuz starter complex, the manufacture and shipment of the “Soyuz-St-Art” launch vehicles and overclocking blocks “Frigate” in the Gwiang Space Center.

/Media reports.