{"id":87798,"date":"2009-12-10T01:51:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T13:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/helios-2b-launch-delayed\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:46:50","slug":"helios-2b-launch-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/helios-2b-launch-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Helios 2B Launch Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-09-09] <strong>Arianespace<\/strong> has postponed the launch of the <strong>French Space Agency<\/strong>\u2019s (CNES) Helios 2B military observation satellite due to an anomaly in the launcher\u2019s subsystem, Arianespace announced Dec. 9.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The decision was made to abort the launch during final countdown. Arianespace said it will attempt another launch in a few days and has placed the Ariane 5 vehicle and the Helios 2B satellite payload in stand-by mode.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-09-09] Arianespace has postponed the launch of the French Space Agency\u2019s (CNES) Helios 2B military observation satellite due to an anomaly in the launcher\u2019s subsystem, Arianespace announced Dec. 9. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The decision was made to abort the launch during final countdown. Arianespace said it will attempt another launch in a few days and has 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-87798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87798"}],"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=87798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87977,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87798\/revisions\/87977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}