on the starting complex “Soyuz” in the Gwiang Space Center (French Guiana) started work within the 28th commissioning campaign. The launch of the “Soyuz-St-b” launch vehicle with an overclocking unit “Frigate MT” and two Galileo Foc M10 spacecraft is scheduled for April 6, 2022 (April 5 – local time).
Calculation of the specialists of the center of exploitation of the objects of the ground space infrastructure and the Roskosmos Roskosmospical Center (included in the state corporation “Roskosmos”) began unloading blocks of the “Soyuz-St-b” missile for further assembly of the “package” of the first and second steps to assemble -the expectant corps.
At the technical complex of the Schemelodrome, S. A. Lavochkin’s scientific and production association (enters Roscosmos) began to prepare an accelerated block “Fregat-MT”. In March, work will begin to refuel its fuel components.
For more than 10 years, the cosmodrome in French Guiana is an almost native home for the Russian missile “Soyuz-Art.” February 10 passed the 27th Start of the “Union” from the French Earth. Once the overseas territory of France was considered a place for the reference of criminals, where because of high humidity, the abundance of dangerous insects prisoners were doomed …
However, today the French Guiana is a place where space dreams are embodied. From here, the rocket carriers of the European Space Agency and Russian “Unions” are started.