Ensemble de Lancement Soyouz
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Ensemble de Lancement Soyouz was a launch complex at the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. Inactive since 2022 due to the Russo-Ukraine War, the complex was first used in October 2011 in support o
Flame pit with a mobile gantry
Soyuz launch – a moment of support arms release. Lightning safety tower visible on a left.
Sojuz TMA 9 into flight
Soyuz (rocket family)
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Soyuz is a family of Soviet and later Russian expendable, medium-lift launch vehicles initially developed by the OKB-1 design bureau and has been manufactured by the Progress Rocket Space Centre in Sa
A Soyuz-FG rocket carrying the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on 18 September 2006.
Soyuz rocket engines
Soyuz-FG erected at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 1/5 (nicknamed Gagarin's Start) ahead of Soyuz TMA-13 in October 2008.
Soyuz 2 ready to launch (2007)