News Archive / Tagged: Soyuz ST-B

• Soyuz ST-B launches from French Guiana with Europe’s Metop-C weather satellite

  Tomasz NowakowskiNovember 6th, 2018

  Arianespace made use of a Russian-built Soyuz ST-B rocket to launch the Metop-C spacecraft into a polar orbit for EUMETSAT.

• Soyuz ST-B launcher lofts O3b quartet to orbit

  Tomasz NowakowskiMarch 9th, 2018

  Arianespace successfully conducted its second launch this year on Friday, March 9 lofting four O3b communications satellites to orbit.

• Arianespace successfully launches Hispasat 36W-1, pushes Soyuz to its limits

  Curt GodwinJanuary 28th, 2017

  Nailing the opening of an instantaneous launch window, a Russian-built Soyuz ST-B lifted off from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana for Arianespace on a mission to deliver the Hispasat 36W-1 telecommunications satellite to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).

• Arianespace to open 2017 launch manifest with Hispasat 36W-1

  Curt GodwinJanuary 26th, 2017

  Multinational launch provider Arianespace is gearing up to launch the Hispasat 36W-1 telecommunications satellite – alternatively known as Hispasat AG1 – from their spaceport facility in Kourou, French Guiana, and will be their first in 2017. Launch of the new-model communications satellite is set for Jan. 27, 2017, with a liftoff time of 8:03 p.m. EST (01:03 GMT on January 28).

• Soyuz soars into space with two Galileo navigation satellites

  Tomasz NowakowskiMay 24th, 2016

  Arianespace has successfully launched a Soyuz ST-B rocket into orbit carrying two navigation satellites for Europe’s Galileo network. Liftoff occurred, as planned, at 4:48 a.m. EDT (8:48 GMT) from the Soyuz Launch Complex (ELS) in Sinnamary, French Guiana.

• Soyuz ST-B to launch Galileo satellite duo on Tuesday

  Tomasz NowakowskiMay 22nd, 2016

  A Soyuz ST-B rocket will take to the skies Tuesday, May 24, to orbit a duo of European Galileo navigation satellites. The spacecraft, designated Galileo 13 and 14, are slated to be lifted off at 4:48 a.m. EDT (08:48 GMT) from the Soyuz Launch Complex (ELS) in Sinnamary, French Guiana.

• Soyuz ST-B booster sends two more Galileo navigation satellites to orbit

  Jason RhianDecember 17th, 2015

  European Launch Service Provider Arianespace launched two more Galileo navigational satellites – "Andriana” and “Liene” – on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015. The firm used a Soyuz ST-B booster to lift the FM08 and FM09 satellites off the launch pad located at the Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 11:51 GMT.

• Arianespace review board determines cause of Galileo launch anomaly

  SpaceFlight InsiderOctober 9th, 2014

  EVRY, Paris — On Aug. 22, Arianespace launched twin Galileo satellites from French Guiana’s Kourou spaceport. Poised atop a Soyuz ST-B, the satellites were the first functional satellites in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Galileo constellation. Dubbed, Doresa and Milena, the satellites were destined for a circular orbit and the launch was initially deemed a […]