The European version of Russia's Soyuz rocket is now scheduled to make its inaugural launch in June 2010 from Europe's spaceport here and will carry the Hylas broadband satellite owned by Avanti Communications of London, according to Jean-Yves Le Gall, chief executive of Europe's Arianespace launch services consortium.rnLe Gall also said Arianespace will launch the first of 24 second-generation Globalstar mobile communications satellites in August 2010 aboard Soyuz vehicles operated from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the rocket's home base. A second Soyuz Global-star launch, also from Baikonur, will occur in late 2010, with the two remaining launches set for 2011, Le Gall said in an Oct. 30 interview.
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机译：欧洲Arianespace发射首席执行官Jean-Yves Le Gall表示，欧洲版的联盟号火箭现在计划于2010年6月从欧洲太空港进行首次发射，并将搭载伦敦阿凡提通讯公司拥有的Hylas宽带卫星。勒·加尔还表示，Arianespace将于2010年8月发射搭载24枚第二代Globalstar移动通信卫星中的第一颗，该卫星是在哈萨克斯坦拜科努尔航天基地运营的联盟号运载火箭上飞行的。勒加尔在10月30日接受采访时说，同样来自拜科努尔的联盟号全球星的第二次发射将于2010年底进行，剩下的两次发射定于2011年进行。
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