Success of the 1,810th launch of Soyuz

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The 1,810th flight of a Soyuz launch  vehicle was performed on Thursday, 26 September 2013 from the Baikonur  Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 00:58 Moscow time (22:58 Paris time on Wednesday,  25 September 2013).

Arianespace and  its Russian partners report that the Soyuz TMA-10M manned transport spacecraft was  accurately placed on the target orbit for another mission to the International Space Station.  This was the eleventh Soyuz family mission in 2013.

With the introduction of Soyuz at the Guiana Space Center (CSG) and its  successful historic launch on 21 October 2011, this famed Russian medium-class  launch vehicle became an integral part of the European launch vehicle fleet, together  with the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and the lightweight Vega. Offered to the  commercial market, the Soyuz in French Guiana is Europe’s  reference medium-class launch vehicle for governmental and commercial missions.

Arianespace press release