First Soyuz launch from French Guiana successful
Submit on Friday, October 21st, 2011 22:59
Rocket: Soyuz ST-B/Fregat-MT; Payload: two Galileo IOV satellites; Date: 21 October 2011, 1030 UTC; Launch site: Sinnamary, French Guiana. All of the Soyuz stages performed as planned, and the Fregat-MT upper stage released the Galileo satellites into their target orbit 3 hours 49 minutes after lift-off.
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