{"id":87752,"date":"2009-12-19T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T12:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/anomaly-causes-second-helios-2b-launch-delay\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:46:18","slug":"anomaly-causes-second-helios-2b-launch-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/anomaly-causes-second-helios-2b-launch-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Anomaly Causes Second Helios 2B Launch Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-18-09] <strong>Arianespace<\/strong> postponed the launch of the <strong>French Defense Procurement Agency\u2019s<\/strong> (DGA) Helios 2B satellite a second time after an anomaly occurred during final countdown, Arianespace announced Dec. 17.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Arianespace could not make a second attempt Dec. 17 due to the narrow launch window. The launch vehicle and its satellite payload have been placed in stand-by mode, and a new date for the mission will be announced as soon as possible, the launch provider said.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Helios 2B, built and developed by <strong>EADS Astrium<\/strong> and <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-18-09] Arianespace postponed the launch of the French Defense Procurement Agency\u2019s (DGA) Helios 2B satellite a second time after an anomaly occurred during final countdown, Arianespace announced Dec. 17. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Arianespace could not make a second attempt Dec. 17 due to the narrow launch window. The launch vehicle and its satellite payload have been placed [&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-87752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87752"}],"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=87752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87939,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87752\/revisions\/87939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}