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Hispasat 36W-1

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Photos: Soyuz rocket climbs away from South American launch pad

January 28, 2017 Stephen Clark

A Soyuz rocket took off from French Guiana on Friday with Hispasat 36W-1, a communications satellite designed to connect Latin America and Europe with video, data and cellular phone services.

Mission Reports

Soyuz rocket supplies sendoff for multi-national telecom payload

January 28, 2017 Stephen Clark

Launching from the edge of the Amazon jungle in South America, a Russian-built Soyuz booster fired into orbit Friday night with a Spanish-owned communications satellite built in Germany to test new commercial telecom technologies and provide video, voice and data relay services.

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Video: Soyuz rocket blasts off with German-made, Spanish-owned satellite

January 28, 2017 Stephen Clark

Watch a video replay of Friday night’s blastoff of a Soyuz rocket from the Guiana Space Center with Hispasat 36W-1, a communications satellite developed by OHB in Germany for Spain’s Hispasat to test out new telecom technologies and provide data networking, video and broadband services over South America and Europe.

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Live coverage: Arianespace declares success on first flight of the year

January 27, 2017 Stephen Clark

A Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off Friday night from a tropical spaceport in French Guiana with a commercial communications satellite setting off on a dual mission to demonstrate new space technologies and bridge the Atlantic with data, video and voice relays. Launch occurred at 0103:34 GMT Saturday (8:03:34 p.m. EST Friday).

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Photos: Commercial telecom satellite mounted for launch on Soyuz rocket

January 26, 2017 Stephen Clark

A new satellite design will debut with Friday’s launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana on a commercial mission to relay video, data and voice messages between the Americas and Europe.

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Soyuz rolled to launch pad for first geostationary launch from French Guiana

January 24, 2017 Stephen Clark

A Russian-built Soyuz rocket moved to its launch pad on the northeastern coast of South America on Tuesday ahead of a Friday night flight with a Spanish-owned communications satellite to relay video and broadband signals between the Americas and Europe.

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    May 15, 2026
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    May 14, 2026
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    May 12, 2026
  • For a second time, poor weather scrubs Cargo Dragon mission launch to the space station
    May 12, 2026
  • SpaceX launches intelligence-gathering satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office
    May 11, 2026
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    May 7, 2026
  • SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
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  • Lockheed Martin joins collaboration with Firefly Aerospace and Seagate for off-shore launches
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    May 2, 2026
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