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Designed to place payloads weighing up to 9.6 tonnes into GTO, this increased capacity allows the Ariane 5 ECA to handle dual launches of very large satellites.<\/p>\n
Given Arianespace now enjoys a full family of launch vehicles.<\/p>\n
With the introduction of Soyuz at the Spaceport in 2011, Arianespace\u2019s family was joined by the lightweight Vega vehicle, following her successful debut in 2012.<\/p>\n
Arianespace will also be at the center of a new launch vehicle, the Ariane 6, which has been approved by the ESA members.<\/p>\n
This latest mission was designated Flight VA226 in Arianespace\u2019s launcher family numbering system and was the 226th Ariane mission since this series of vehicles entered operation in 1979.<\/p>\n
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Its total lift performance was more than 10,200 kg., which includes approximately 6,440 kg. for Sky Muster, the estimated 2,977 kg. mass of ARSAT-2, and the hardware for Ariane 5\u2019s SYLDA dispenser system that accommodates the dual payload.<\/p>\nReleased first during the mission \u2013 due to riding in the upper passenger position of Ariane 5\u2019s dual-payload arrangement \u2013 was Sky Muster. This spacecraft will deliver broadband services to more than 200,000 rural and remote Australians.<\/p>\n
It was the initial satellite to be orbited by Arianespace for nbnTM, a Commonwealth of the Australia-owned company.<\/p>\n
Also known as NBN Co 1A, the satellite has a mass of nearly 6,400 kg, It was built by Space Systems Loral.<\/p>\n
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ARSAT-2 rode in the lower payload position on Ariane 5.<\/p>\nThis satellite was built under the responsibility Argentina\u2019s INVAP and will be operated by the state-owned Argentinian operator ARSAT to provide direct-to-home television (DTH), Internet access services for reception on VSAT antennas, along with data transmission and IP telephony.<\/p>\n
It has a liftoff mass of approximately 2,975 kg.<\/p>\n
ARSAT-2 is the second geostationary satellite designed and manufactured in Argentina (and all of Latin America).<\/p>\n
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ARSAT-2 is the younger twin of ARSAT-1 and is based on the ARSAT-3K bus.<\/p>\n
ARSAT-2\u2019s communication equipment consists of 16 Ku-Band transponders and 4 C-Band transponders. It has two deployable and one fixed Gregorian antenna.<\/p>\n
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It will cover all the Americas offering data services as well as television content distribution. This is a strategic asset since Argentina is the leader on broadcast content production for Latin America and ARSAT-2 will enable it to distribute it directly through all the continent.<\/p>\nWhile the payload was supplied as a whole subsystem by Thales Alenia, the integration even to the physical mating and integration with the bus, was done entirely by INVAP with the contractor just overseeing the procedure.<\/p>\n
The mission was the ninth of 12 flights planned this year by Arianespace utilizing its family of the heavy-lift Ariane 5, medium-lift Soyuz and lightweight Vega.<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, Arianespace announced on Wednesday that it has signed a contract ARSAT to launch its next geostationary satellite, ARSAT-3, plus options on two more launches.<\/p>\nThis strategic long-term agreement follows last year\u2019s successful launch of ARSAT-1 on October 16, 2014, and came a few hours before the launch of ARSAT-2. It will cover Argentina\u2019s satellite launch requirements until 2023.<\/p>\n
With a liftoff mass of approximately 3,000 kg., ARSAT-3 will be the first satellite launched, delivered to geostationary transfer orbit in 2019. It will be injected by an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Center, Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana.<\/p>\n
The two options involve two geostationary satellites that are similar to ARSAT-3, and for which their launches are planned for the 2020-2023 timeframe. These new ARSAT satellites will complement the services already offered by ARSAT-1 and soon ARSAT-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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