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Everyone ready for ESA's first launch of the year in five minutes?

>>6934539
>>6934544
hard to argue with success! That family almost has more launches (nearly 2000) than all the world's other rockets combined!

>>6550863
Proton is the problem child, Soyuz has actually been a great reliable launcher, which is why ESA built a pad for them at Kourou

>>5745593
That already is NASA's strategy. Just in the last month, Congress chose to cut $400 million from the Commercial Crew program, but spend $424 million to extend the contract to fly American astronauts to the ISS on the Soyuz (the only remaining human spacecraft). Totally illogical!

and
>Russian rockets
>best
funny guy! the last six failures were all on Russian rockets. Their main advantage is sunk development costs from the Soviet era and cheap labor, so their prices are very low. (That said, I love me some Soyuz. 900 flights in 50 years and still going strong.)

Soyuz in orbit, docking with ISS in six hours (shortest manned rendezvous, normally it takes over a day to sync orbits).

>>3426810
1966-

проблема, челнок?

>>2670159

GLORIOUS SOVIET ENGINEERING

You can't improve on perfection.

>>2091694
except Russia is having the last laugh. Even Arianespace is going to be launching Soyuz soon.

Soyuz Family still doing load runs to the ISS.