Installation of the payload consisting of the first two Galileo satellites on the Soyuz-ST launch vehicle using the vertical assembly mobile tower. Soyuz-ST lifted off on October 21, 2011.
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A Soyuz launch vehicle lifted off for the first time from Kourou in French Guiana on October 21, 2011. Soyuz carried the first two Galileo satellites. Soyuz launch vehicles that are flown from Kourou use an updated digital flight control system, a more powerful third stage, and have a larger payload fairing.
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On October 1, 2011, a comet plunged into the Sun. The STEREO coronagraphs captured the event. Do not drive and text message in the same time!
On October 19, 2011, a Proton-M launch vehicle lifted off with the telecommunications satellite ViaSat-1 from the Baikonur cosmodrome. This was the 369th flight of a Proton-M.
Rollout of a Proton-M launch vehicle with the telecommunications satellite ViaSat-1.
On September 28, 2011, NASA conducted a new test of the J-2X rocket engine. The test firing lasted for 40 seconds and took the engine to a 99 percent power level. J-2X is fueled by liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, and it is designed to power the upper stage of a heavy-lift launch vehicle.
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