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The payload record was pushed a further 5 kg (11 lb), up to 10,735 kg (23,667 lb) on 24 August 2016 with the launch of Intelsat 33e and Intelsat 36. [59] On 1 June 2017, the payload record was broken again to 10,865 kg (23,953 lb) carrying ViaSat-2 and Eutelsat-172B . [ 60 ]
The first flight of the Ariane V rocket self-destructed due to an overflow occurring during a floating-point to integer conversion in the on-board guidance software. The same software had been used successfully in the Ariane IV program, but the Ariane V produced larger values for some variable, causing the overflow. [31] [32]
The Ariane 5 reused the code from the inertial reference platform from the Ariane 4, but the early part of the Ariane 5's flight path differed from the Ariane 4 in having higher horizontal velocity values. This caused an internal value BH (Horizontal Bias) calculated in the alignment function to be unexpectedly high.
Ariane 5ES carrying ATV-004. The European Ariane 5 first flew in 1996 and launched many commercial payloads to GTO. It benefited in this role by launching from Guiana Space Center, a spaceport near the equator in French territory. Ariane 5 often carried multiple payloads per launch and set records for mass to GTO delivered for commercial payloads.
Payload Payload mass Orbit Customers Launch outcome VA251: 16 January 2020 21:05 Ariane 5 ECA+ 5110 Guiana ELA-3: Eutelsat Konnect GSAT-30: 6,976 kg GTO: Eutelsat ISRO: Success [citation needed] Eutelsat communications satellite and ISRO communications satellite. VA252: 18 February 2020 22:18 Ariane 5 ECA+ 5111 Guiana ELA-3: JCSAT-17 GEO ...
Ariane flight VA256 was an Ariane 5 rocket flight that launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) into space on 25 December 2021. [3] It was 2021's final Ariane flight, its most valuable payload to date, and the 256th Ariane mission. The launch was described by NASA as "flawless" and "perfect". [4]
Ariane Flight VA245 [1] [2] is the Ariane 5 space launch of BepiColombo that took place on 20 October 2018 at 01:45:28 UTC from the Guiana Space Centre. It was the 101st launch of Ariane 5 (the 5th in 2018), and the 301st Arianespace mission (the 7th in 2018).
Ariane flight VA248 was the 104th launch of an Ariane 5 launch vehicle, and the 71st launch of its ECA variant. [49] [53] It was also the fifth launch conducted by Arianespace in 2019. [53] VA-249: 6 August 2019 19:30 Ariane 5 ECA+ 5108 Guiana ELA-3: Intelsat 39 EDRS-C / HYLAS-3: 9,786 kg GTO: Intelsat ESA / Airbus DS / Avanti: Success First ...