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Décollage du Vol Ariane 240 depuis le Centre spatial guyanais

Mardi 12 décembre, Ariane 5 s’est élancé depuis le Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), port spatial de l’Europe, pour mettre en orbite les 19ème, 20ème, 21ème et ...

Arianespace Flight VA240 / Galileo FOC-M7 / SAT 19-20-21-22

Arianespace has successfully launched satellites 19, 20, 21 and 22 in the Galileo constellation, using an Ariane 5 heavy launcher on behalf of the European C...

Arianespace orbits four more Galileo satellites as Ariane 5 logs 82nd successful launch in a row

Arianespace has successfully launched satellites 19, 20, 21 and 22 in the Galileo constellation, using an Ariane 5 heavy launcher on behalf of the European C...

Arianespace Vol VA240 / Galileo FOC-M7 / SAT 19-20-21-22

Arianespace a lancé avec succès les satellites 19, 20, 21 et 22 de la constellation Galileo pour la Commission européenne (DG GROW) dans le cadre d’un contra...

Galileo FOC-15, FOC-16, FOC-17, FOC-18

Overview

Destination: Medium Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Medium Earth Orbit Ariane Launch Area 3 Kourou, French Guiana

The Galileo constellation is ESA’s satellite navigation system and is expected to be completed by 2020. Galileo will provide Europe with an alternative to the American GPS and Russian GLONASS constellations, but will be interoperable with both systems.

Ariane 5 ES

Family: Ariane 5
Configuration: ES

The Ariane 5 ES (Evolution Storable) has an estimated LEO launch capacity of 21,000 kg (46,000 lb). It includes all the performance improvements of Ariane 5 ECA core and boosters but replaces the ESC-A second stage with the restartable EPS used on Ariane 5 GS variants. It was used to launch the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) into a 260 km circular low Earth orbit inclined at 51.6° and has been used 3 times to launch 4 Galileo navigation satellites at a time directly into their operational orbit. The Ariane 5 ES flew 8 times from 2008 to 2018 with no failures.

Specifications
  • Max Stage
    2
  • Length
    45.7 m
  • Diameter
    5.4 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.4 m
  • Launch Mass
    746 T
  • Thrust
    11400 kN
Family
  • Name
    Ariane 5 ES
  • Family
    Ariane 5
  • Variant
    ES
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Ariane 5 ES
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    21000 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

ArianeGroup

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CEO: André-Hubert Roussel Founded: 2015 Successes: 0 Failures: 0 Pending: 0

Agency Type: Commercial

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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Kourou, French Guiana

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