The Russian Soyuz spacecraft ready for launch to the ISS

The Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-05M, with three cosmonauts aboard, is now on the platform of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, ready for launch to the International Space Station (ISS) .

The device will be released tomorrow, Sunday at 02.40 GMT with 32 members of the expedition manned spacecraft :the crew is Russian Yuri Malenchenko (c), the American Sunita Williams (i) and Japan's Akihiko Hoshide (d).

All set in Kourou for the launch of the tenth satellite Meteosat

The first of this new chain, renamed Meteosat-8, was launch into orbit in 2002 and Meteosat-9 three years later. SPECIAL.

Analyze the sunlight reflected by the surface of the Earth.

The satellite is designed to try to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts

Europe's Spaceport in Kourou in (French Guiana),

Next two satellites are prepared for launch

The next two satellites in the Galileo European navigation have been subjected to an aggressive vacuum conditions and extreme temperatures in preparation for launch, scheduled for September 28. The fourth satellite Galileo completed earlier this month 20 days of thermal vacuum tests on the location of Thales Alenia Space on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. The third had passed the same test a month earlier.