Ariane 5 launched at 9:21am UK time from the ESA Spaceport in French Guiana, as it carries the largest commercial telecommunications satellite ever to be placed in geostationary transfer orbit. <\/p>\n
A fault on the launch board at T-15 seconds \u2013 a fault that was non-specific was worked on by engineers \u2013 moved the count back to T-7 minutes and holding while the problem was being evaluated. A perfect launch followed soon after.\n<\/p>\n
Arianespace set the new launch date after the completion of additional checks and work on components of the launcher. <\/font><\/p>\n During this activity, the Ariane 5 Generic vehicle and its THAICOM 4 (IPSTAR) payload have remained in a safe condition inside the Spaceport\u2019s final assembly building, before rolling out to the pad.<\/font><\/p>\n The heavyweight THAICOM 4 (IPSTAR) will have a mass at liftoff of more than 6,500 kg. (14,000 lb.). Built by Space Systems\/Loral for Shin Satellite, Plc of Thailand, THAICOM 4 (IPSTAR) is to provide enterprises and consumers with various levels of Internet access services throughout Asia, Australia and New Zealand \u2013 competing with terrestrial cable modems and digital subscriber lines.<\/font><\/p>\n Live update thread: Ariane 5 launched at 9:21am UK time from the ESA Spaceport in French Guiana, as it carries the largest commercial telecommunications satellite ever to be placed in geostationary transfer orbit. A fault on the launch board at T-15 seconds \u2013 a fault that was non-specific was worked on by engineers \u2013 moved the count back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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