Tag: Koreasat 7
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Launches resume in French Guiana with dual-payload Ariane 5 flight
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Running more than six weeks late after social unrest in French Guiana forced the closure of Europe’s launch base in the Amazon jungle, a commercial Ariane 5 rocket took off Thursday just after sunset with a pair of communications satellites manufactured in France for…
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Launches resume in French Guiana with dual-payload Ariane 5 flight
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Running more than six weeks late after social unrest in French Guiana forced the closure of Europe’s launch base in the Amazon jungle, a commercial Ariane 5 rocket took off Thursday just after sunset with a pair of communications satellites manufactured in France for…
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Photos: Ariane 5 launcher on the eve of liftoff
A European Ariane 5 rocket sat poised for liftoff on a tropical launch pad Thursday nestled in the edge of the Amazon rainforest of South America. The 180-foot-tall (55-meter) rocket, powered by twin solid rocket boosters and a hydrogen-fueled Vulcain 2 main engine, was set for launch at 2031 GMT (4:31 p.m. EDT) with the…
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Photos: Ariane 5 launcher on the eve of liftoff
A European Ariane 5 rocket sat poised for liftoff on a tropical launch pad Thursday nestled in the edge of the Amazon rainforest of South America. The 180-foot-tall (55-meter) rocket, powered by twin solid rocket boosters and a hydrogen-fueled Vulcain 2 main engine, was set for launch at 2031 GMT (4:31 p.m. EDT) with the…
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Timeline for Ariane 5’s launch of SGDC and Koreasat 7
Two European-made communications satellites destined to serve the Brazilian government and commercial customers across Asia are set to ride an Ariane 5 rocket into orbit Thursday. Standing nearly 180 feet (55 meters) tall, the Ariane 5 is scheduled to lift off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 2031 GMT (4:31 p.m. EDT; 5:31 p.m. French Guiana…
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Timeline for Ariane 5’s launch of SGDC and Koreasat 7
Two European-made communications satellites destined to serve the Brazilian government and commercial customers across Asia are set to ride an Ariane 5 rocket into orbit Thursday. Standing nearly 180 feet (55 meters) tall, the Ariane 5 is scheduled to lift off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 2031 GMT (4:31 p.m. EDT; 5:31 p.m. French Guiana…
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Ariane 5 launch pushed back to Wednesday by labor strikes in Kourou
The Ariane 5’s payload fairing is lowered over the Koreasat 7 satellite March 11. The main thruster of the SGDC communications craft, which will ride in the upper position inside the Ariane 5 fairing, is visible above Koreasat 7. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon A work stoppage at the…