Yesterday, October 14, 2021, a vessel “Tukan” arrived at the port of Pariacabo G. Kuru (French Guyan) and the “Soyuz-St” carrier missiles and the head fairing of the Progress Rocket and Space Center (Samara , It is part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”). On his board, also accelerated blocks “frigate” production of the scientific and production association named after S.A. Lavochkina (Khimki, enters Roscosmos) and fuel components.
To get into French Guiana, the components of the missiles did a long way – first on the railway from the city of Samara to the port of St. Petersburg, then through the French port of Havre, the ship headed into an open ocean, passing the strait of La Mans. The distance of 8 thousand 110 kilometers through the Atlantic vessel was overcome in a few weeks. They passed this path in special hermetic containers, in which the necessary humidity and pressure are supported.
After unloading, special conference with high-tech equipment will be deposited on the installation and test case of the “Union” launch complex in the Gwiang Space Center. Currently, specialists of the research institute of start-up complexes named after V.P. Barmina (branch of the center of exploitation of objects of ground-based space infrastructure, is included in Roscosmos) started working on the preparation for the launch of spacecraft of the European satellite system “Galileo”.
In the assembly and test case, electrical and pneumatic tests with an overclocking unit “Frigate” are carried out by specialists of the rocket and space industry. Start of the Soyuz-St-B carrier missile with Spacecraft “Galileo” is scheduled for December 1, 2021.
“Union to GCC” – the International Space Project of the State Corporation “Roscosmos”, the European Space Agency, the National Center for Space Research of France and Cooperatives of the Leading Enterprises of the Rocket and Space Branch of Russia and France. Within the framework of the project’s implementation by Cenni specialists, a special start-up complex for the Soyuz-Art-St-stampers was built in the Gwian Space Center. Since the first launch of October 21, 2011, 25 Soyuz-Art missiles have already been carried out.