Russian Soyuz launches European satellites - video

A Russian Soyuz ST-B rocket launches two European space navigation satellites into orbit from a European base in Kourou, French Guiana. It was the first launch of a Soyuz outside the former Soviet Union. It has taken 350 Russian space technicians and engineers four years to build the £500m launch site

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