Rocket: Soyuz 2-1b
Payload: Galileo 5 & 6
Date: Aug. 22, 2014
Time: 1227:11 GMT (8:27:11 a.m. EDT)
Launch Site: ELS, Guiana Space Center, Sinnamary, French Guiana

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