Comment i am online (Score 1) 425
Is this for real? I wonder what nice inventions they'll come up with next..
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Submission + - New Soyuz Launch Facility Gets Equator Boost (pbs.org) 1
tcd004 writes: Russian and French teams are currently hard at work in French Guiana on the northern coast of South America, building the first Soyuz launch facility in the Western Hemisphere. Soyuz rockets normally carry 3,500 pound payloads into orbit, but from the French Guiana spaceport, the rocket will have an added benefit of being near the equator where the Earth's spin extremely fast. This extra boost allows it to deliver a 6,600 pound payload into orbit. The first launches are scheduled for October.
