European Space Agency (ESA) has launche Russian Soyuz VS01 rocket on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, in the space base of Kourou, French Guiana. The Russian Federal Space Agency and Arianespace, the commercial arm of the 13-country European Space Agency, also launched on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, the Soyuz rocket from the European spaceport in South America, carrying two Galileo navigation satellites in its maiden flight.
