{"id":69119,"date":"2017-01-05T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-poised-for-12-launches-in-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T12:00:09","slug":"arianespace-poised-for-12-launches-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-poised-for-12-launches-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Poised for 12 Launches in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 01-05-2016] Following 11 successful launches in 2016, <strong>Arianespace <\/strong>reported on Jan. 4 that the launch company expects to maintain a sustained launch pace in 2017, with 12 planned launches.<\/p>\n<p>The launch schedule will include up to seven launches with Ariane 5: Six Ariane 5 ECA launchers carrying satellites into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) for global or regional operators and one Ariane 5 ES, which will orbit four more Galileo satellites for the <strong>European Commission<\/strong> and <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also planning three launches with its Vega spacecraft, which will inject four Earth observation satellites into sun-synchronous orbit. The Vega launches will include two single launches: Sentinel 2B, for the Copernicus program led by the European Commission and ESA; and an atmospheric dynamics mission, ADM-Aeolus, for ESA. It will also include one dual launch: OPTSAT 3000 on behalf of <strong>CGS<\/strong> and <strong>Telespazio<\/strong> for the Italian defense ministry\/VEN\u00b5S for the Israeli space agency and CNES.<\/p>\n<p>Last, there will be two launches by Soyuz, which will carry out its first missions from CSG into GTO, for the <strong>Hispasat<\/strong> HAG 1\/H36G and <strong>SES<\/strong> 15 satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside <strong>Starsem<\/strong>, Arianespace is also actively gearing up for the deployment of the <strong>OneWeb<\/strong> constellation, with an initial launch planned as early as the first half of 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 01-05-2016] Following 11 successful launches in 2016, Arianespace reported on Jan. 4 that the launch company expects to maintain a sustained launch pace in 2017, with 12 planned launches. The launch schedule will include up to seven launches with Ariane 5: Six Ariane 5 ECA launchers carrying satellites into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69120,"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-69119","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\/69119"}],"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=69119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}