Ariane 5's First Launch This Year A Success | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-05.06.24

Airborne-NextGen-05.07.24

Airborne-Unlimited-05.08.24 Airborne-FlightTraining-05.09.24

Airborne-Unlimited-05.10.24

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

Ariane 5's First Launch This Year A Success

Delivers Two Satellites Into Orbit

An Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, has delivered the Sky Brasil-1 and Telkom-3S telecom satellites into their planned orbits.

Liftoff of flight VA235 was announced at 21:39 GMT (22:39 CET, 18:39 local time) from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana for a mission lasting about 39 minutes.

Sky Brasil-1 was the first to be released about 27 minutes into the mission. The Telkom-3S was released about 12 minutes later.

Sky Brasil-1, operated by AT&T/DirecTV, will provide high-definition television to Brazil. The satellite has a design life of more than 19 years.

Indonesia’s Telkom-3S will provide the nation with high-definition television, mobile communications and Internet. Some services will also cover Southeast Asia and Malaysia. The satellite has a design life of more than 16 years.

The payload mass for this launch was 10,482 kg (approx. 23,000 pounds).

Flight VA235 was the 91st Ariane 5 mission.

(Image provided with Arianespace news release)

FMI: www.arianespace.com

Advertisement

More News

Airborne-Flight Training 05.09.24: ERAU at AIAA, LIFT Diamond Buy, Epic A&P

Also: Vertical Flight Society, NBAA Maintenance Conference, GA Honored, AMT Scholarship For the first time, students from Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach, Florida, campus took t>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (05.07.24): Hazardous Weather Information

Hazardous Weather Information Summary of significant meteorological information (SIGMET/WS), convective significant meteorological information (convective SIGMET/WST), urgent pilot>[...]

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (05.07.24)

"The need for innovation at speed and scale is greater than ever. The X-62A VISTA is a crucial platform in our efforts to develop, test and integrate AI, as well as to establish AI>[...]

NTSB Final Report: Cessna 150

(FAA) Inspector Observed That Both Fuel Tanks Were Intact And That Only A Minimal Amount Of Fuel Remained In Each Analysis: According to the pilot, approximately 8 miles from the d>[...]

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (05.08.24)

“Pyka’s Pelican Cargo is unlike any other UAS solution on the market for contested logistics. We assessed a number of leading capabilities and concluded that the Pelica>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2024 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC