Arianespace have returned to action on Wednesday, as their Ariane 5 ECA launched two more telecommunication satellites into orbit – namely Arabsat-5C and SES-2. Launch from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, was on schedule, at the start of a 40 minute launch window, which opened at 9:38pm UTC.
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Arianespace took it to the wire during their second attempt to launch two telecommunications satellites via their Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle on Saturday night, following a weather related delay, prior to launching at 22:52 UTC. The attempt came over a month since a fault with a LH2 valve on the vulcain core stage caused a scrub [...]
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Arianespace have launched two telecommunications satellites via their Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle. The two passengers – ST-2 and GSAT-8 – are being lofted into their respective transfer orbits from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana – with lift-off on time at the opening of the launch window at 20:38 GMT.
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Arianespace have launched with Yahsat 1A and Intelsat New Dawn telecommunications satellites via the Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle on Friday, the same vehicle which suffered a rare pad abort after main engine ignition on its first attempt at the end of March. After the vehicle was rolled back at the the European Spaceport in [...]
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Arianespace have concluded their sixth, and final, Ariane 5 ECA launch for 2010, as their workhorse vehicle launched with its dual passengers – Koreasat 6 and Hispasat 1E. High altitude winds resulted in a hold at T-7 minutes, prior to Arianespace announcing they would scrub for 24 hours on Tuesday. Wednesday’s attempt launched at the opening [...]
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Arianespace are back on the pace, with another dual launch taking place on Friday via their Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle. The European workhorse is lofting HYLAS 1 and Intelsat 17 into their transfer orbits, with lift-off on time at 18:39 GMT – launching from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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Arianespace were back in action on Thursday evening with the dual launch via their Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle. The European workhorse lofted the Eutelsat W3B and BSAT-3b telecommunication satellites into their transfer orbits, with lift-off on time at 21:51 GMT – launching from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. However, W3B failed early [...]
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Arianespace have finally launched their second mission of the year via the Ariane 5 ECA, following issues that resulted in two scrubs. The workhorse launched with the Arabsat 5A and COMS 1 telecommunication satellites from the European Spaceport in French Guiana, during an issue-free countdown, at 9:41pm GMT.
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Arianespace’s delayed opening launch of 2010, with the Astra 3B and COMSATBw 2 satellites, has launched from the European Spaceport in French Guiana via the Ariane 5 ECA. Launch was at 10.01pm GMT. Technical issues delayed the launch from March, before another issue in April caused the rollback and review of the vehicle’s hardware.
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Arianespace have launched their six mission of the year via the latest flight of the Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle. The workhorse is carrying the NSS 12 and THOR-6 telecommunication satellites into orbit from the European Spaceport in in French Guiana. Lift-off was on schedule at the start of a 100 minute launch window that opened at [...]
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Arianespace have launched their fifth mission of the year via their latest flight of the Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle. The workhorse launched with the Amazonas 2 and COMSATBw-1 satellites, with lift-off on schedule at the start of a 71 minutes launch window that opened at 6:59 pm local time in French Guiana (5:59 Eastern [...]
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Arianespace’s Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle lifted-off with two space two telecommunication satellites – JCSAT-12 and Optus D3 – on Friday, and successfully placed them into their transfer orbit, following launch from the European Spaceport in French Guiana, at the start of a 60 minute launch window that opened at 6:09pm Eastern.
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Arianespace were back in action on Wednesday, with the launch of their Ariane 5 ECA and a single passenger, the TerreStar-1 communications satellite. Launch from the European Spaceport in French Guiana was delayed by a storm that passed over the center, and several technical issues, before launching at 17:52 GMT.
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Arianespace’s Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle has lifted off to place two space telescopes into orbit on Thursday, launching from the European Spaceport in French Guiana at 13:12 GMT. The dual launch marks the opening lifespan of the Herschel and Planck observatories, which has a price tag of 1.9 billion Euros.
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An Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle has launched for the sixth and final time in 2008, lofting the HOT BIRD 9 and W2M telecommunication satellites into orbit from Kourou, French Guiana.
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