launch services
Arianespace Soyuz
Soyuz at the Guiana Space Centre was the Soyuz ST launch service flown from the ELS complex at Europe's Spaceport, using Soyuz ST-A/ST-B vehicles with a Fregat upper stage for medium-class missions.[1][2] The Guiana service is retired: Soyuz operations at Europe's Spaceport were discontinued on 2022-02-26 after 27 launches.[2] The published performance envelope for this service was 3,250 kg to geostationary transfer orbit and up to 4,400 kg to sun-synchronous orbit.[3] Treat it as historical Guiana Soyuz capability, not a currently active launch service from that site.[2]
Sources
- [1]Four decades of setting the launch service standards, Arianespaceoperator press2019-03-262026-06-16
- [2]Soyuz orbits the French CSO-2 Earth observation satellite, Arianespaceoperator press2020-12-292026-06-16
- [3]Soyuz in French Guiana, Centre Spatial Guyanais/CNESagency doc-2026-06-16