Hot Toys Swat 3.0 Female Review Making the Soyuz for the ESA

The Soyuz , Product the form which gives all four of its first stage rocket, is one of the main icons of the first Soviet space program and now Russian. And no wonder: the rocket design, which today is still in service, dating back to 1966 and is the direct descendant of the Semyorka R-7 , the rocket that put Sputnik into orbit.

artistic representation of the Soyuz launching container carga
typical ESA from French Guiana. The proximity of this base Ecuador
allows the Soyuz launch into orbit nearly double the payload
raised from bases in the former USSR.

In this video (in English, but the Easy,) of ESApod can see how today joined the Russian city of Samara for use by the ESA , which has been built at the base of a CH Fancesa Guiana TMLXC specific installation to launch such rockets. The long history of successful launches of Soyuz suggest that can provide a good service the European agency as a vehicle for launch, while the Russians are benefiting from the advantages offered by the launch base in French Guiana.