Tag: Ariane 5
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Ariane 5 in position for dual-satellite launch
Rolling out for its first liftoff of the year Friday, an Ariane 5 rocket journeyed out of a launcher assembly building Thursday and rode railroad tracks to its launch pad in French Guiana with two European communications satellites. Pulled under the power of a 540-horsepower Titan tug, the 179-foot-tall rocket arrived at the ELA-3 launch…
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Satellites Supply Line – Sending spacecraft to Kourou
Two more satellites destined for a ride into space have completed assembly ahead of being lofted by Arianespace rockets. Europe’s Sentinel-2A was transported by truck from IABG’s facilities to Munich airport for a Antonov cargo plane ride on Monday night, while Orbital ATK’s SKYM-1 satellite recently arrived at the Kourou spaceport after being assembled four months ahead of…
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Ariane 5 launch postponed by faulty connector
File photo of an Ariane 5 rocket and its cryogenic umbilical arms. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG Arianespace has postponed this week’s launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with two European communications satellites to replace a faulty fluid connector between the launcher and its mobile launch platform, officials said Tuesday. The tandem satellite delivery mission…
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Arianespace to launch satellites for Earth imaging, data relay
File photo of a Vega rocket launch. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon Arianespace announced four launch orders this week to deploy spacecraft in orbit for a subsidiary of Google, the United Arab Emirates and Europe’s new laser data relay satellite network. The missions will launch from the Guiana Space…
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SES completes three-satellite procurement with Ariane 5 contract
File photo of an Ariane 5 launch. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG SES has selected Arianespace to launch a communications satellite ordered as part of a three-spacecraft procurement announced last month, after assigning the other two payloads for launches aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets. The SES 15 communications platform will blast off…
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Arianespace on pace for one launch per month in 2015
The cryogenic core stage for the first Ariane 5 launch of 2015 was installed on its mobile launch platform Nov. 20. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Baudon Last week’s successful launch of a Vega rocket with a European re-entry technology demonstrator marked the first of at least 11 flights planned…
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Arianespace edges out SpaceX to launch Korean satellites
An Ariane 5 rocket lifts off on Dec. 6, 2014, with two commercial satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG Two South Korean Earth-watching satellites will ride Ariane 5 rockets into orbit in 2018 and 2019 after Arianespace beat SpaceX in a competition to launch the spacecraft, Korean and Arianespace officials announced Friday.…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 blasts off on commercial flight
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the DirecTV 14 and GSAT 16 communications satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Ariane 5 sends up satellites for DirecTV, India
Two communications satellites rode an Ariane 5 rocket into space Saturday — one to beam down ultra-sharp television programming into millions of American homes and another craft to give Indian citizens expanded access to information technology. The dual-payload blastoff occurred at 3:40 p.m. EST (2040 GMT; 5:40 p.m. local time) from the Ariane 5’s ELA-3…
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Ariane 5 rocket to boost satellites for Latin America
The Ariane 5 rocket sits on the ELA-3 launch pad Wednesday evening. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Optique Video du CSG – P. Piron Two telecommunications satellite for Latin America are counting down to liftoff Thursday aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. The powerful 18-story launcher is set to ignite its hydrogen-fueled Vulcain 2 main…