On the Gwiang Space Center (French Guian), the “Soyuz-St-B” rocket rocket, which is intended for withdrawing two Galileo Foc Space devices to the orbit. On Saturday, November 27, 2021, work began on the schedule of the first starting day.
Preparation of the carrier missile and the work of the land-owned land technological equipment provided by the Russian side is provided by the specialists of the state corporation “Roskosmos”. The launch of spacecraft will conduct joint Russian-European launchers. The operator of the starts with this cosmodrome is the European supplier of Arianespace launch services, from the Russian side the head contract integrator in the project is the company “Glavkosmos” (part of the state corporation “Roscosmos”), providing at all stages the interaction of enterprises of the Russian space industry with Arianespace.
A feature of the preparation of a start-up in the Gwiang Space Center is the separate transportation of the three stages of the carrier and the cosmic head, followed by their assembly on the start-up installation using the mobile service tower. Therefore, later on the “Soyuz-St-b” rocket (the production of the Progress Rocket and Space Center, G. Samara, enters Roscosmos) to establish a head part in the Overclocking block “Fregat” (Development of the SA Science and Production Association Lavochkina, Khimki, enters Roscosmos) and spacecraft.
As part of the first starting day, operations on the docking of the pneumatic and filling communications “Package” (first and second steps) of the rocket and assembly of the control system schemes, measurement systems and media thermostatting systems are carried out. In addition, on Saturday, work on the docking of the carrier rocket with the cosmic head of the accelerated block “Frigate” and two Galileo Foc Space Aids is used.
Start of the Soyuz-St-B Mare rocket is scheduled for December 2, 2021. Of the 26 Galileo satellites already located at the near-earth orbit, 14 were launched by the Soyuz-2 family rockets in the period from 2011 to 2016. During the first start from the European Cosmodrome in the French Guiana in October 2011, the Soyuz-St-B “with an overclocking unit” Frigate “also brought two cosmic devices of the Galileo system into orbit.