Submission + - Soyuz lifts off again
ZoCool writes: "No doubt to the deep relief of the Russian and Arianespace engineers, and the investors buying their services, Anatoly Zac’s RussianSpaceWeb reports that on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, at 21:09 Moscow Time (17:09 GMT) a Soyuz-2-1a launch vehicle carrying the third tranche of the 2nd Generation Globalstar network, in the form of 6 satellites, was delivered successfully to orbit. (see http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ for Dec 27)
This launch from Baikonur’s Site 31, pad 6, has broken the recent unusual string of malfunctions that has bugged this usually rock solid workhorse. I imagine that the troops in the space station (http://www.russianspaceweb.com/iss_soyuz_tma03m.html) might be breathing a little more easily too, as the Soyuz is the backbone of the worlds space missions these days, when it comes to medium lift."
This launch from Baikonur’s Site 31, pad 6, has broken the recent unusual string of malfunctions that has bugged this usually rock solid workhorse. I imagine that the troops in the space station (http://www.russianspaceweb.com/iss_soyuz_tma03m.html) might be breathing a little more easily too, as the Soyuz is the backbone of the worlds space missions these days, when it comes to medium lift."
