Marc’s note: You can watch live the final flight of the year of an Arianespace Soyuz-Fregat launch at 12:09 pm ET. This is the 1,784th launch of a Soyuz rocket which will orbit six new satellites of the Globalstar-2 constellation. The launch is from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Marc’s Update 2:17 pm: The Soyuz has launched successfully. from Arianespace:
“For today’s launch, the liftoff occurred at 11:09 p.m. local time from Baikonur Cosmodrome’s Launch Pad #6 and was the 1,784th flight of a Soyuz family vehicle. During the mission, Soyuz’ re-ignitable Fregat upper stage performed two propulsive burns separated by a coast phase of approximately 50 minutes, followed by the Globalstar satellites’ separation in a two-step process. The initial spacecraft pair was released from the upper portion of a purpose-built dispenser system, followed 1 minute, 40 seconds later by the remaining four satellites’ separation from the dispenser’s lower section.”
Arianespace Soyuz ST24 Flight Today
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Given the Soyuz ST successes, you’d half expect all the Baikonur/Plesetsk payloads to want to shift to a tropical launch … smirk.
At least they all have working third stages.