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Posted: February 16, 2011 The Ariane 5 rocket launched at 2151 GMT (4:51 p.m. EST) Wednesday with the European Space Agency's second ATV resupply freighter bound for the space station. These images were captured from a viewing site near the launch base in French Guiana and inside the ATV control center in Toulouse, France.Credit: Stephane Corvaja/ESACredit: ESA/CNES/ARIANESPACE - Optique Video CSG - P. Baudon, 2011Credit: Stephane Corvaja/ESACredit: Stephane Corvaja/ESACredit: ESA | | | | 2014 Spaceflight Now Inc.2010 concludes with Ariane rocket's 199th launchSPACEFLIGHT NOWPosted: December 29, 2010Two commercial satellites for the expansion of communications services from space were launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket today, capping another successful year for the booster that saw a dozen payloads deployed in 2010.Credit: ArianespaceThe hydrogen-fueled main engine roared to life at 2127 GMT (4:27 p.m. EST), followed seven seconds later by ignition of the twin solid rocket motors to begin thundering out of the Guiana Space Center in Kourou on the northeastern coast of South America.The heavy-lift launcher, making its 55th flight, climbed steeply through the late afternoon sky and headed downrange for a half-hour trek into geosynchronous transfer orbit to deliver the Spanish Hispasat 1E and South Korea's Koreasat 6 spacecraft.It was the Ariane rocket family's 199th mission, coming 31 years since the maiden launch in 1979."I want to thank all of those who contributed to this new Ariane 5 success," said Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall. "And I would obviously very much like to thank the Arianespace operational team for their flexibility, reactivity, reliability and availability - and above all - the passion they bring enabled us to meet our promises."The Ariane achieved a highly elliptical orbit stretching 22,321 miles at its farthest point from Earth and 155 miles at the nearest. The satellites will use their onboard engines to circularize the orbit and reach geostationary slots in the coming days.Riding atop the dual payload stack was Hispasat, a powerful spacecraft to be operated by the Madrid-based company of the same name, will expanded available video and data transmission services for bridging the Atlantic and coverage across Europe."In the middle of an important investment process, Hispasat 1E is the second of five new satellites laid out in our growth plan," said Petra Mateos, chairwoman of Hispasat.An artist's concept of Hipasat 1E. Credit: Space Systems/LoralManufactured by Space Systems/Loral with an 18-year lifetime, the 11,725-pound satellite carries 53 Ku-band transponders and a Ka-band capability.It will be parked in geostationary orbit over the equator at 30 degrees West longitude alongside the Hipasat and birds launched aboard Atlas 2AS rockets from Cape Canaveral in 2000 and 2002, respectively."The Hispasat 1E satellite will offer new services for direct-to-home TV platforms, digital-terrestrial television and also for high-definition television as well as broadband services," said Antonia Abad, Hispasat's chief technology officer.Sharing the ride to orbit aboard the Ariane 5 rocket was the 6,275-pound Koreasat 6, a communications satellite designed to operate at least 15 years and serve South Korea by operator KT Corp. of Seoul.An artist's concept of Koreasat 6. Credit: Orbital SciencesBuilt by Orbital Sciences with Thales Alenia Space supplying the communications payload, Koreasat 6 is bound for a geostationary orbital slot at 116 degrees East longitude. It has 30 Ku-band transponders for telecommunications and direct-to-home TV transmissions."Koreasat 6 will upgrade broadcasting service quality by providing enhanced HD and 3D satellite TV programs and maintaining the continuity of Koreasat 3 services," said Ho-Ick Suk, vice chairman of KT Corp.The new satellite replaces Koreasat 3 that launched aboard an Ariane 4 rocket in 1999 and was sold to another Asian spacecraft controller earlier this year. Today's successful flight represented the Ariane 5's sixth launch of 2010, all occurring in a hectic seven-month stretch, with each of the rockets deploying pairs of communications satellites. The dozen satellites amounted to 99,725 pounds.Next up is the high-profile launch of the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo resupply ship to rendezvous with the International Space Station. That rocket is being processed at the Kourou spaceport for a planned Feb. 15 liftoff on the milestone Flight 200.STS-134 PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The final planned flight of space shuttle Endeavour is symbolized in the official embroidered crew patch for STS-134. Available in our store!Final Shuttle Mission PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The crew emblem for the final space shuttle mission is now available in our store. Get this piece of history!Apollo CollageThis beautiful one piece set features the Apollo program emblem surrounded by the individual mission logos.STS-133 PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The final planned flight of space shuttle Discovery is symbolized in the official embroidered crew patch for STS-133. Available in our store!Anniversary Shuttle PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!This embroidered patch commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Program. The design features the space shuttle Columbia's historic maiden flight of April 12, 1981.Mercury anniversaryFree shipping to U.S. addresses!Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Alan Shephard's historic Mercury mission with this collectors' item, the official commemorative embroidered patch. | | | | 2014 Spaceflight Now Inc.50th Ariane 5 rocket ready for launch Friday evening SPACEFLIGHT NOWPosted: March 26, 2010Updated on April 9 A commercial satellite to distribute television programs to Europe and a German military communications bird are shrouded inside an Ariane 5 rocket scheduled to lift off Friday evening on its 50th flight. File photo of the Ariane 5 rocket rolling to the launch pad. Credit: Arianespace The 166-foot-tall rocket can launch during a 49-minute window opening at 2159 GMT (5:59 p.m. EDT) Friday. The Ariane 5 will blast off from the French-run spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.The rocket rolled atop a mobile launch table to the ELA-3 pad Thursday morning. The trip on dual rail tracks took nearly two hours, according to Arianespace, the rocket's commercial operator.Once on the launch pad, the Ariane 5 was hooked up to the complex's electrical, fluid and communications systems for its one-day stay.The launch was postponed two weeks because of a problem with a rocket subsystem. Engineers resolved the issue and cleared the Ariane 5 for flight earlier this week.The mission will be the 50th launch of the Ariane 5 rocket since its disastrous debut flight in 1996, which was ended by an infamous computer glitch causing the vehicle to spin out of control 30 seconds after liftoff.The Ariane 5 rocket overcame its dark beginnings and has amassed 35 straight successful launches since 2003. The European rocket now leads the cutthroat commercial launch industry.Friday's launch is typical of Ariane 5 missions today. Powered into space by the combined force of hydrogen and solid rocket propulsion, the Ariane 5 ECA launcher will drop off two communications satellites in a preliminary transfer orbit. From there, the spacecraft will push themselves to their permanent stations in the geosynchronous arc 22,300 miles above the planet.It will take more than 33 minutes for the Ariane 5 to deploy its payloads in an elliptical orbit that will take the satellites as far as 22,236 miles from Earth. The orbit should have an inclination angle of 3 degrees to the equator, according to Arianespace, which has managed the Ariane 5 rocket's commercial operations since 1999.After providing the bulk of the thrust needed to propel that Ariane 5 into the upper atmosphere, the launcher's two cylindrical solid rocket boosters will be released at T+2 minutes, 20 seconds.The hydrogen-fueled Vulcain 2 main engine of the first stage will give way to a cryogenic upper stage just after the 9-minute point in the flight. The Ariane 5's second stage will fire for nearly 16 minutes before shutting down at T+24 minutes, 45 seconds. Workers add a special logo to the Ariane 5 rocket commemorating its 50th launch. Credit: Arianespace ASTRA 3B will separate from the Ariane 5 first at T+Plus 27 minutes, 40 seconds, according to Arianespace data. A barrel-shaped satellite adapter will be jettisoned three-and-a-half minutes later, exposing the COMSATBw 2 spacecraft for deployment at T+33 minutes, 21 seconds.After arriving in geosynchronous orbit, ASTRA 3B will be positioned at 23.5 degrees east longitude to replace two aging satellites covering communications users across Europe and the Middle East.Operated by SES ASTRA, the 12,063-pound satellite will broadcast television services directly to homes in Europe and provide two-way broadband communications for Middle East customers. ASTRA 3B's service life is projected to be at least 15 years.COMSATBw 2 will join a nearly identical satellite launched in October to serve Germany's military with secure communications. The sister satellites will ensure the German Armed Forces receives reliable voice and data relay, video and multimedia broadcasting services for the next 15 years.Germany's new satellite constellation will reach from the Americas to the Far East. COMSATBw 2 will focus its coverage on Europe and Africa.Controllers at the Guiana Space Center will begin the Ariane 5's final countdown at 1033 GMT (6:33 a.m. EDT) Friday. Four hours later, at 1433 GMT (10:33 a.m. EDT), engineers will check the rocket's electrical systems. The first stage liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellant loading sequence should begin just after 1700 GMT (1 p.m. EDT). Fueling of the second stage is expected about an hour later.A final test of telemetry, tracking and command connections between the launcher and ground systems is scheduled for around 2053 GMT (4:53 p.m. EDT).Seven minutes before launch, computers will take control of the countdown in a synchronized sequence of events to pressurize propellant tanks, switch to on-board power and take the rocket's guidance system to flight mode.The Vulcain 2 engine will ignite as the countdown clock reaches zero, followed by a health check and ignition of the Ariane 5's solid rocket boosters seven seconds later to send the 1.7 million-pound launcher skyward.John Glenn Mission PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The historic first orbital flight by an American is marked by this commemorative patch for John Glenn and Friendship 7.Final Shuttle Mission PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The crew emblem for the final space shuttle mission is available in our store. Get this piece of history!Celebrate the shuttle programFree shipping to U.S. addresses!This special commemorative patch marks the retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle Program. Available in our store!Anniversary Shuttle PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!This embroidered patch commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Program. 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Credit: ArianespaceThe European-made booster roared out of the South American jungle launch site at 1:52 p.m. EDT (1752 GMT) after a 99-minute delay initially caused by unfavorable weather and then two holds late in the countdown for unspecified issues.Once clocks hit zero, the giant rocket fired to life and thundered on its way toward geosynchronous transfer orbit. Launch provider Arianespace reported the Ariane hit the targeted orbit with a high point of 22,334 miles, a low point of 155 miles and inclination of 6 degrees.Some 26 minutes after liftoff, the massive TerreStar 1 satellite was successfully released into the preliminary perch above the planet."Sometimes it is nerve-racking to go through these sorts of launches," Jean-Yves Le Gall, chairman and CEO of Arianespace, said shortly after the successful deployment."Nerve-racking? I guess three times is the charm...My heart is still pounding a little bit," added Jeff Epstein, president of TerreStar Networks."Obviously, I'm very happy to share this new success with you. It is our 31st success in a row, it's the third in 2009, and I think it shows us perfectly how high performance and reliability can go hand-in-hand," Le Gall said of the workhorse Ariane 5.TerreStar 1 will be maneuvered into a circular geostationary orbit over the next week, eventually parking itself above the equator at 111 degrees West longitude to cover the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands."All of us have been on a shuttle bus going from an airport to a car rental agency. The satellite is about as big as that shuttle bus. It is 26 feet tall and it's about 10-foot-square when stowed for launch," said Tann Pinney, vice president of satellite services at TerreStar Networks.Weighing some 15,235 pounds at launch, this powerhouse satellite is designed for a new generation of mobile communications using regular-size handsets and the elimination of the large antenna on existing satellite phones."Let's look at the handset we've been able to produce. You don't see the big, bulky antenna, you don't see a big brick. This is the same size as smartphones are today. This will be the first integrated terrestrial-satellite smartphone in the world," said Dennis Matheson, chief technology officer of TerreStar Networks."One of the uniquenesses of TerreStar is that when we actually set out to design the satellite and the satellite specifications, we sort of went about it in a different paradigm than has been done in the past. We looked at what the consumers were using today, what they were using in their day-to-day lives, and we said we wanted a satellite that would enable a consumer-level device that would operate with a geosynchronous satellite." An artist's concept of the TerreStar 1 satellite deployed in orbit. Credit: Space Systems/LoralTerreStar plans to blend the capabilities of its new satellite with a terrestrial network to provide mobile voice and data communications, messaging services and video for both commercial and government subscribers. Its target audience includes emergency responders, rural communications and on-the-go customers who want "always connected" service no matter where they're located."The customer will be able to see a lot better coverage at speeds that you haven't been able to get over satellite before," said Pinney."It is going to revolutionize telecommunications over North America," said Le Gall.The satellite, which was manufactured by Space Systems/Loral, will unfurl a 60-foot-diameter mesh antenna reflector and activate some 500 narrow spotbeams to communicate with the smartphones, plus laptops and portable devices."These beams enable ordinary handheld cell phone devices to be used directly to the satellite," said KP Bhat, executive director of the TerreStar 1 program at Space Systems/Loral."I don't know if you can guess how many man hours have been spent on this satellite, but actually way over 1 million throughout the time the satellite was being designed, built and tested, and this is just at Space Systems/Loral," said John Celli, president and COO of SS/L.The first call via TerreStar 1 is expected later this month, followed by full testing and the start of service by year's end."This is really just the beginning of the story for TerreStar," said Epstein.Arianespace has four more Ariane 5 rockets slated for launch this year. Next up will be the mid-August flight to deploy the JCSAT 12 communications satellite for Japan and Optus D3 for Australia.John Glenn Mission PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The historic first orbital flight by an American is marked by this commemorative patch for John Glenn and Friendship 7.Final Shuttle Mission PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!The crew emblem for the final space shuttle mission is available in our store. Get this piece of history!Celebrate the shuttle programFree shipping to U.S. addresses!This special commemorative patch marks the retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle Program. Available in our store!Anniversary Shuttle PatchFree shipping to U.S. addresses!This embroidered patch commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Program. 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Credit: EnergiaGaia star surveyor joins Soyuz rocketSPACEFLIGHT NOWPosted: December 16, 2013 A team of Russian and European technicians working in the Amazon jungle transferred a Soyuz rocket and a sharp-eyed astronomical observatory to the launch pad this weekend, connecting the launcher and payload together for liftoff Thursday on a $1.2 billion mission to create an atlas of the galaxy.The rollout operations began Saturday at sunrise at the Guiana Space Center in South America. Russian workers moved the three-stage rocket on a specialized transporter-erector system riding on rail tracks.By midday, the Soyuz was lifted vertical over the launch pad's cavernous flame trench carved out of granite bedrock.The 4,484-pound Gaia spacecraft, already enclosed with its Fregat-MT upper stage inside the Soyuz rocket's payload fairing, was transported Saturday afternoon from a clean room at the south end of the space center to the Soyuz launch zone near the northwest perimeter of the French-owned base.Once it arrived at the base of the Soyuz launch pad's 174-foot-tall mobile gantry, Gaia and the rocket's 13.5-foot-diameter nose shroud were lifted into the tower and positioned above the Soyuz third stage.The Fregat upper stage, Gaia and the fairing were firmly attached to the Soyuz launcher Saturday night with the manual tightening of 102 bolts.A countdown rehearsal is set for Tuesday ahead of the start of the real countdown late Wednesday.Launch is scheduled for 0912:19 GMT (4:12:19 a.m. EST; 6:12:19 a.m. local time).See our for the latest news on the launch.
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