{"id":87830,"date":"2009-12-04T00:48:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T11:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-in-final-preparations-for-helios-2b-launch\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:47:02","slug":"arianespace-in-final-preparations-for-helios-2b-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-in-final-preparations-for-helios-2b-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace in Final Preparations for Helios 2B Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-03-09] <strong>Arianespace<\/strong> has entered final preparations for the Dec. 9 launch of the <strong>French Space Agency<\/strong>\u2019s (CNES) Helios 2B military observation satellite, Arianespace announced Dec. 2.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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 French Defense Procurement Agency (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.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This is Arianespace\u2019s seventh and final launch of 2009.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Satellite News Video Update Special \u2013 Report from Kourou<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tNovember 6, 2009<br \/>\n[11-06-09] SatelliteTODAY.tv is launching a new Satellite News Video Update episode featuring an on-site report from the Arianespace launch of the NSS-12 and Thor 6 satellites in Kourou, French Guiana. <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Arianespace Launches Thor 6 and NSS-12<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tOctober 30, 2009<br \/>\n[11-02-09] Arianespace has launched Telenor Satellite Broadcasting s (TSB) Thor 6 and SES World Skies NSS-12 satellites into orbit. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd The Ariane 5 was launched Oct. 29 from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Arianespace Launches Two European Satellites<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tOctober 5, 2009<br \/>\n[10-05-09] Arianespace successfully launched the Amazonas-2 and ComSatBw-1 satellites on Oct. 1 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, the launch company announced. Amazonas-2, a civilian relay platform owned by Hispasat, aims to expand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-03-09] Arianespace has entered final preparations for the Dec. 9 launch of the French Space Agency\u2019s (CNES) Helios 2B military observation satellite, Arianespace announced Dec. 2. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Helios 2B, built and developed by EADS Astrium and Thales Alenia Space, will be placed into a Sun-synchronous orbit and managed by the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA), [&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-87830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87830"}],"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=87830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88002,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87830\/revisions\/88002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}