Preparation for launch of “Soyuz-Art” missile in French Guiana

In the Gwiang Space Center (French Guiana), work began on preparing for the launch of the “Soyuz-Art” missile with spacecraft “Galileo”. In accordance with the schedule of work on October 27, 2021, the calculation of specialists of the Progress Rocket and Space Center with the participation of the center of exploitation of the objects of ground-based space infrastructure (Cenni, entering the state corporation “Roskosmos”) completed unloading blocks of the “Soyuz-St-St Assembling the “package” of the first and second steps.

Currently, the Overclocking unit “Frigate” was taken to FCube’s construction to start work on refueling fuel components. Management of refueling is carried out by S.A. scientific and production association specialists Lavochkina and Research Institute of Starting Complex names named after V.P. Barmina (a branch of Cenni, both enterprises enter Roscosmos).

“Union to GCC” – the international space project of the Roscosmos State Corporation, the European Space Agency, the National Center for Space Research of France and Cooperatives of the Leading Enterprises of the Rocket and Space Russia and France. Within the framework of the project’s implementation, the Cenni specialists in the Gwian Space Center built a special starting complex for the “Soyuz-Art” launch vehicles. From the moment of the first start on October 21, 2011, 25 launches of the “Soyuz-Art” missiles were already held.

/Media reports.