{"id":87775,"date":"2009-12-15T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-reschedules-helios-launch\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:46:36","slug":"arianespace-reschedules-helios-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-reschedules-helios-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Reschedules Helios Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-15-09] <strong>Arianespace<\/strong> rescheduled the launch of the <strong>French Space Agency<\/strong>\u2019s (CNES) Helios 2B military observation satellite for Dec. 17, Arianespace announced.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The launch was delayed when a problem was found with the rocket\u2019s liquid helium subsystem on the cryogenic main stage prior to a scheduled Dec. 9 launch. Work on the problem has been completed, Arianespace said.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Helios 2B, built and developed by <strong>EADS Astrium<\/strong> and <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong>, will be placed into a Sun-synchronous orbit and managed by the <strong>French Defense Procurement Agency<\/strong> (DGA), which assigned contracting authority for the space segment to CNES. Helios 2B 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<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Helios 2B Launch Delayed<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 9, 2009<br \/>\n[12-09-09] Arianespace has postponed the launch of the French Space Agency s (CNES) Helios 2B military observation satellite due to an anomaly in the launcher\u2019s subsystem, Arianespace announced Dec. 9.<\/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<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. Helios 2B, built and developed by EADS\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-15-09] Arianespace rescheduled the launch of the French Space Agency\u2019s (CNES) Helios 2B military observation satellite for Dec. 17, Arianespace announced. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The launch was delayed when a problem was found with the rocket\u2019s liquid helium subsystem on the cryogenic main stage prior to a scheduled Dec. 9 launch. Work on the problem has been [&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-87775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87775"}],"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=87775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87958,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87775\/revisions\/87958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}