{"id":87747,"date":"2009-12-21T20:23:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T13:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-launches-helios-2b\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:46:14","slug":"arianespace-launches-helios-2b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-launches-helios-2b\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Launches Helios 2B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-21-09] <strong>Arianespace<\/strong> launched the Helios 2B military observation satellite after two delays caused by last-minute anomalies, the company announced Dec. 18.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite was launched using an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Helios 2B, built for the <strong>French Ministry of Defense<\/strong> by <strong>EADS Astrium<\/strong>, is the second satellite in France\u2019s next-generation space-borne observation system for military applications that will be used in conjunction with Belgium, Spain, Italy and Greece. The satellite features a very-high-resolution optical imaging instrument produced by <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Anomaly Causes Second Helios 2B Launch Delay<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 18, 2009<br \/>\n[12-18-09] Arianespace postponed the launch of the French Defense Procurement Agency s (DGA) Helios 2B satellite a second time after an anomaly occurred during final countdown, Arianespace announced Dec. 17.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Arianespace in Final Preparations for Helios 2B Launch<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 3, 2009<br \/>\n[12-03-09] Arianespace has entered final preparations for the Dec. 9 launch of the French Space Agency s (CNES) Helios 2B military observation satellite, Arianespace announced Dec. 2.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Arianespace CEO: Kourou On-Target to Debut Soyuz Service in 2010<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 9, 2009<br \/>\n[12-09-09] Arianespace is on schedule to introduce its new medium-lift launch service in 2010, according to CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall, who celebrated the company s 30th anniversary at its U.S. headquarters in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-21-09] Arianespace launched the Helios 2B military observation satellite after two delays caused by last-minute anomalies, the company announced Dec. 18. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite was launched using an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Helios 2B, built for the French Ministry of Defense by EADS Astrium, is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-87747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87747"}],"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=87747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87934,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87747\/revisions\/87934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}