From: "Jacques van Oene" Newsgroups: sci.space.news Subject: Success of the 1679th launch of Soyuz Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 15:11:03 +0200 Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena CA Approved: sci-space-news@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Message-ID: <001b01c32dbf$6a24b5a0$d1cd5dd5@chello.nl> charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov 1055077717 25649 137.78.16.91 (8 Jun 2003 13:08:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@newsfeed.jpl.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jun 2003 13:08:37 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Originator: daemon@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Xref: newsread2.funet.fi sci.space.news:13732 Press release Evry, June 8, 2003 Success of the 1679th launch of Soyuz The 1679th flight of a Soyuz family launch vehicle was performed Sunday, June 8, 2003 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launcher lifted off on schedule at 4:34 p.m. Baikonur local time (12:34 p.m., in Paris), and the Progress spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit. Soyuz sustained launch rate confirms its position as one of the world's primary launch vehicles. This rate also demonstrates Samara Space Center's continuous production capacity, as well as the operational capability of launch teams at Baikonur under the authority of the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. Starsem is the Soyuz Company, bringing together all key players involved in the production, operation and international commercial marketing of the world's most versatile launch vehicle. Shareholders in Starsem are EADS (35%), the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (25%), the Samara Space Center (25%) and Arianespace (15%). The Starsem manifest for Soyuz missions currently includes contracted launches for Space Systems/Loral, the European Space Agency and Eumetsat. For further information, please contact Claire COULBEAUX + 33 (0) 1 69 87 01 10 communication@starsem.com ---- Jacques :-) Editor: www.spacepatches.info ------------------------------------------------------