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OriginalInaugural flight of Soyuz at the Guiana Space Centre with two Galileo navigation system satellites.
Reason
File from German Aerospace Center, high resolution, one of a rare shots showing a launch of Arianespace Soyuz, with some great features and composition. It's a historically significant photograph, showing the first launch of Soyuz outside of the former Soviet Union territory. And finally: We have a huge deficit of non-US featured pictures in Space categories - if passed, that would be the first featured picture from Europe's spaceport.
Articles in which this image appears
Soyuz at the Guiana Space Centre, Galileo (satellite navigation), Ensemble de Lancement Soyouz, Rocket launch
FP category for this image
Space/Getting there
Creator
DLR, German Aerospace Center

Promoted File:Galileo launch on Soyuz, 21 Oct 2011 (6266227357).jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:53, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]