The first start of the new year was scheduled for January 6
MOSCOW, October 21. /tass/. Three launches of Soyuz-ST launch vehicles are expected in 2022 from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana. This was announced in an interview with TASS by Ruslan Mukhamedzhanov, Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI, part of Roscosmos).
"Three launches are planned in 2022, the first of which is expected on January 6," Mukhamedzhanov said.
This year, he added, one launch is expected. The Soyuz-ST launch vehicle will launch the spacecraft of the European navigation system Galileo into orbit. "The launch is scheduled for November 30, 2021 (Moscow time on December 1)," Mukhamedzhanov said.
October 21 marks the 10th anniversary of the first launch of the Soyuz-ST launch vehicle from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana. In 2011, a Russian rocket with a Fregat upper stage launched two European Galileo navigation satellites into orbit. Since then, up to four launches of Russian rockets have been carried out annually from the Kourou cosmodrome.
