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    Second Soyuz from French Guiana

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    • Title Second Soyuz from French Guiana
    • Released: 13/12/2011
    • Length 00:04:29
    • Language English
    • Footage Type Documentary
    • Copyright ESA
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      This 16 December for the second time the legendary Soyuz will be launched from Europe's Space Port. It will carry French Space Agency Pleiades satellites, a dual Earth observation system composed of a constellation of two optical satellites (visible and near infrared domain) on a Sun-synchronous orbit at 694 km. The Pleiades system is an optical observation system with a metric resolution designed to offer a high acquisition capability with a revisit lower than 24 hours to satisfy both civilian and miitary needs.

      More backgroud information can be found on: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Launchers_Home/index.html

      The MPEG-2 files are on the ESA ftp server in the folder entitled: ftp://esa.contentcoders.com/mpeg2/Soyuz-Family-08122011/

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    • Activity Space Transportation
    • Mission Galileo, Soyuz, Sputnik 1, Vega
    • People Jean-Jacques Dordain, Jean-Yves Le Gall, Yuri Gagarin
    • System Ariane 5, ELISA Demonstrator Satellites, IOV-1, Pléiades 1 Satellite, Space Shuttle , SSOT Satellite, Vega Launch Vehicle
    • Location Baikonour, French Guiana, Kazakhstan, Kourou
    • Action Explaining, Filming, Flying, Landing, Launching, Testing, Watching, Working
    • Keywords Aerial view, Ariane, Ariane 5 launches, Arianespace, Control room, EADS Astrium, Engineers, Harbour, High resolution, Interview, Laser, Laser beam, Launch, Launch pad, Launcher, Models, Navigation, Operational satellite, Payload, Retrospection, Satellite image, Satellites, Stages, Sun, Sunshine

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