Tag: Eutelsat
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Arianespace opens busy year with successful Ariane 5 launch
An Ariane 5 rocket fires away from the ELA-3 launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana, Thursday with the Eutelsat Connect and GSAT 30 communications satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon The first of up to 22 launches on Arianespace’s schedule in 2020 successfully delivered a commercial European broadband satellite…
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New European satellite design to debut on Ariane 5 launch Thursday
The Ariane 5 rocket with the Eutelsat Konnect and GSAT 30 communications satellites rolled to its launch pad in French Guiana on Wednesday. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Baudon A broadband communications satellite for Paris-based Eutelsat — built on a new Thales Alenia Space all-electric design with xenon plasma thrusters…
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Eutelsat investigating solar array ‘incident’ on new communications satellite
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Oct. 25 with MEV-1 update. Artist’s concept of the Eutelsat 5 West B satellite orbit. Credit: Northrop Grumman A Eutelsat communications satellite launched Oct. 9 has suffered an “incident” with one of its two solar arrays, the Paris-based operator announced Thursday. Built by Northrop Grumman, the Eutelsat 5 West B satellite is designed…
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Photos: Proton fires off the launch pad with two U.S.-built satellites
Six RD-276 engines powered a Russian Proton rocket off the launch pad Wednesday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, boosting a television broadcast payload for Eutelsat and the first commercial robotic satellite servicing spacecraft into orbit. The 191-foot-tall (58.2-meter) Proton rocket lifted off from pad 39 at the Site 200 complex at Baikonur at…
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Successful Proton launch deploys Eutelsat satellite, first Mission Extension Vehicle
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) with the resignation of Kirk Pysher as ILS president. A Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:17:56 a.m. EDT (1017:56 GMT) Wednesday. Credit: Roscosmos A Proton booster rocketed away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazaskhtan Wednesday…
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Live coverage: Proton rocket launches with two U.S.-built satellites
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the Eutelsat 5 West B television broadcasting satellite and the first Mission Extension Vehicle satellite servicing spacecraft. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”ILS…
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Satellite industry’s first robotic servicing mission ready for launch
The Proton rocket’s Breeze M upper stage, the MEV 1 satellite servicing spacecraft, and the Eutelsat 5 West B communications satellite (left to right) during launch processing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: International Launch Services A pioneering Northrop Grumman-built satellite designed to dock with an aging spacecraft more than 22,000 miles above Earth,…
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Arianespace signs Eutelsat as first commercial customer for new Ariane 6 rocket
Artist’s concept of an Ariane 6 rocket, in a configuration with four strap-on solid rocket boosters. Credit: ESA Eutelsat is the first commercial company to commit to launching on Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket, under a five-launch agreement announced Monday in conjunction with fresh contracts for Arianespace to haul a French spy satellite and a…
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Eutelsat plans satellite to assess potential for low-altitude constellation
Artist’s illustration of a six-unit, or 6U, CubeSat. Credit: NASA Ames Joining other established commercial geostationary satellite operators looking at fleets of communications platforms in low Earth orbit, Eutelsat announced Thursday it will launch a small testbed next year as a precursor to a potential network of data relay craft flying a few hundred miles…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 rocket launches on record-breaking mission
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the ViaSat 2 and Eutelsat 172B communications satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video stream begins at approximately 2330 GMT (7:30 p.m. EDT).