{"id":59286,"date":"2020-08-03T23:45:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-sends-ariane-5-rocket-back-to-hangar-for-sensor-replacement\/"},"modified":"2020-08-03T23:45:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:45:03","slug":"arianespace-sends-ariane-5-rocket-back-to-hangar-for-sensor-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-sends-ariane-5-rocket-back-to-hangar-for-sensor-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Sends Ariane 5 Rocket Back to Hangar for Sensor Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arianespace<\/strong> will have to wait a little longer for its post-COVID-19 comeback. The French launch company was forced to scrub its Ariane 5 VA253 mission on Friday after detecting a sensor malfunction on the rocket\u2019s first stage liquid hydrogen tank just two minutes before liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>The Ariane 5 rocket will be transferred back to its assembly facility with its trio of passenger spacecraft still aboard. \u201cA spare sensor will be set up and a new flight program will be uploaded to the launcher,\u201d Arianespace officials said. \u201cThese additional operations, and those that follow, will take several days. In the meantime, the Ariane 5 launch vehicle and its three spacecraft payloads are in stable and safe conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rocket carries <strong>Intelsat<\/strong>\u2019s Galaxy 30 (G-30), the <strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong>-built Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV-2), and <strong>BSAT<\/strong>\u2019s BSAT-4b satellite. For this flight, Arianespace increased Ariane 5\u2019s payload capacity by 85 kg with the introduction of a&nbsp; new Vehicle Equipment Bay (VEB). This brought total payload capacity to 10,200 kg.<\/p>\n<p>G-30, also built by Northrop Grumman, will provide UHD video distribution\/broadcast and broadband services to North America, along with broadband and networks services. It is the first refresh in Intelsat\u2019s Galaxy fleet, and the operator\u2019s first four-spectrum satellite, featuring C-, Ku-, Ka- and L-band capabilities. It will replace Galaxy 14 and enter service in early 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace will have to wait a little longer for its post-COVID-19 comeback. The French launch company was forced to scrub its Ariane 5 VA253 mission on Friday after detecting a sensor malfunction on the rocket\u2019s first stage liquid hydrogen tank just two minutes before liftoff. The Ariane 5 rocket will be transferred back to its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59287,"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-59286","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\/59286"}],"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=59286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}