ERS-2

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Earth Science

Low Earth Orbit Ariane Launch Area 2 Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

ERS (European Remote Sensing Satellite) are a family of multi-disciplinary Earth Observation Satellites.

Ariane 40

Family:
Configuration: 40

The Ariane 4 was an expendable space launch system, developed by the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, for the European Space Agency (ESA). It was manufactured by ArianeGroup and marketed by Arianespace. Since its first flight on 15 June 1988 until the final flight on 15 February 2003, it attained 113 successful launches out of 116 total launches.

Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    55.6 m
  • Diameter
    3.8 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    3.8 m
  • Launch Mass
    245.0 T
  • Thrust
    2720.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Ariane 40
  • Family
  • Variant
    40
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Ariane 40
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    4600.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    2290.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Aérospatiale

Aérospatiale

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Founded: 1970 Successes: 0 Failures: 0 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

Aérospatiale was a French state-owned aerospace manufacturer that built both civilian and military aircraft, rockets and satellites. It was originally known as Société nationale industrielle aérospatiale (SNIAS). Its head office was in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The name was changed to Aérospatiale during 1970.

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