Watch the Launch

Additional Media

ARIANESPACE FLIGHT VA230: 72ND SUCCESSFUL ARIANE 5 LAUNCH IN A ROW

Arianespace has successfully launched two satellites for operators in the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region: EchoStar XVIII for the operator DISH Network L.L.C and BRIsat for the Indonesian bank PT...

Ariane 5 arrives at the Spaceport for a June launch with EchoStar XVIII and BRIsat

The shipping container with Ariane 5’s “upper composite” – composed of the ESC-A cryogenic upper stage and vehicle equipment bay – is unloaded from the MN Colibri transport ship docked at Pariacabo Port in French Guiana. This component is for an Arianespace Ariane 5 mission in early June with the …

Echostar 18 & BRIsat

Overview

Destination: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Mission: Communications

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

Both Echostar-18 and BRISat are built by Space Systems/Loral using their 1300 bus to provide communications at geostationary orbit for 15 years. Echostar-18 will be positioned at 110 degrees west to replace Echostar-10, whereas BRISat will be stationed at 150 degrees east. BRISat will provide exclusive coverage for the Indonesian bank BRI which has 9,800 branches serving 50 million customers across the Indonesian archipelago. Echostar-18 and BRISat weigh 6000kg and 3500kg respectively.

Ariane 5 ECA

Family:
Configuration: ECA

Ariane 5 is a heavy-lift launch vehicle, part of the Ariane rocket family.

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
10500.0 kg
Direct Geostationary
―
Sun-Synchronous Capacity
―

ArianeGroup

(AG)

CEO: Christophe Bruneau 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.

INFO WIKI

Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Ariane Launch Area 3

Recent Launches

Long March 12B

Success

1 day, 21 hours ago

Demo Flight (SpaceSail Polar Group #10)

Long March 12 series Pad - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

First test launch of CASC/CACL’s Long March 12B rocket; carried a batch of 2 operational Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V ba…

Long March 2D

Success

3 days, 12 hours ago

4 x SatNet test satellites

Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Officially described as "Satellite-Internet Technology Demonstration Satellites". Probably 4 test satellites for the Chinese state-owned LEO commu…

Falcon 9

Success

3 days, 15 hours ago

Starlink Group 17-41

Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Atlas V 551

Success

4 days, 6 hours ago

Amazon Leo (LA-07)

Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, thi…