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[Livestream] Ariane 5’s final flight (VA261)

CNES Join us for the final flight of Ariane 5’s long and illustrious career on 16 June to orbit our Syracuse 4B military satellite and the Heinrich

Syracuse 4B & Heinrich Hertz (H2Sat)

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Overview

Destination: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Mission: Communications

Geostationary Transfer Orbit Ariane Launch Area 3 Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Syracuse 4B is a French military communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space. Heinrich Hertz (H2Sat) is a small geostationary communications satellite built by OHB System and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to explore and test new broadband communications technologies.

Updates

Nosu • July 5, 2023, 10:44 p.m.

Successful deployment and AOS confirmed for both passengers. This concludes the career of Ariane 5.


Nosu • July 5, 2023, 10 p.m.

Liftoff of the final Ariane 5


LL2 • July 5, 2023, 9:22 p.m.

Livestream has started


hitura-nobad • July 4, 2023, 6:31 a.m.

Delayed by 1 day due to unfavorable high altitude winds


Cosmic_Penguin • June 23, 2023, 1:06 p.m.

New launch date and time.


Ariane 5 ECA+

Family:
Configuration: ECA+

Ariane 5 ECA+ is a variant of the Ariane 5 heavy-lift vehicle, with a taller ECA-D upper stage.

Specifications
  • Max Stage
    2
  • Length
    57.7 m
  • Diameter
    5.4 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.4 m
  • Launch Mass
    780.0 T
  • Thrust
    11400.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Ariane 5 ECA+
  • Family
  • Variant
    ECA+
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Ariane 5 ECA+
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    10200.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

ArianeGroup

ArianeGroup

(AG)

CEO: Martin Sion Founded: 2015 Successes: 0 Failures: 0 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

ArianeGroup (formerly Airbus Safran Launchers) is an aerospace company based in France. A joint venture between Airbus and Safran, the company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux. It consists of three core arms: aerospace, defence and security.

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