Soyuz To Loft Koreasat 6 From Guiana Space Center

摘要

A European version of Russia's Soyuz rocket will launch the Koreasat 6 telecommunications satellite in late 2010 from Europe's Guiana Space Center spaceport under a contract with Korea Telecom (KT), the Arianespace launch consortium announced Aug. 25. European and Russian engineers are completing construction of the Soyuz launch facility in French Guiana. The inaugural flight of the vehicle from French Guiana is scheduled to occur in late 2009. Operated from the equatorial launch base, the Soyuz vehicle will be capable of placing satellites weighing up to 3,000 kilograms into geostationary transfer orbit, the destination of most commercial telecommunications satellites.