{"id":58532,"date":"2020-12-02T21:37:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-launches-falconeye-2-satellite-for-uae\/"},"modified":"2020-12-02T21:37:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:37:54","slug":"arianespace-launches-falconeye-2-satellite-for-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-launches-falconeye-2-satellite-for-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Launches FalconEye 2 Satellite for UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arianespace<\/strong> launched an Earth Observation (EO) satellite for the United Arab Emirates on Dec. 1. An Arianespace Soyuz rocket took off from the Spaceport in French Guiana at 10:33 p.m. local time. The FalconEye 2 satellite was deployed to Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) 58 minutes after liftoff. Total payload mass was 1,340 kg. The launch was successful after having been delayed for months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FalconEye will support the needs of the UAE Armed Forces and provide commercial imagery. The satellite was a joint product of <b>Airbus Defence and Space<\/b> and <b>Thales Alenia Space<\/b>. Airbus created the platform and satellite design, and Thales supplied the optical instrument and the image chain subsystem.<\/p>\n<p>The first FalconEye satellite was destroyed when its launch on a Vega rocket failed in 2019. Arianespace is now investigating another Vega launch failure on Nov. 16, which lost satellites for France and Spain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arianespace has two more Soyuz launches planned before the end of the year \u2014 Flight ST29 from the new Russian launch site in Vostochny for <b>OneWeb<\/b>; and Flight VS25 from the Spaceport, carrying a French military satellite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA new success for Soyuz! The workhorse launcher has deployed the United Arab Emirates\u2019 FalconEye satellite in orbit on Arianespace Flight VS24. Congratulations and thank you to all our partners,\u201d Arianespace CEO St\u00e9phane Isra\u00ebl tweeted after the launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace launched an Earth Observation (EO) satellite for the United Arab Emirates on Dec. 1. An Arianespace Soyuz rocket took off from the Spaceport in French Guiana at 10:33 p.m. local time. The FalconEye 2 satellite was deployed to Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) 58 minutes after liftoff. Total payload mass was 1,340 kg. The launch was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58533,"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-58532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58532"}],"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=58532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}