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The Ariane 5 ME (Mid-life Evolution) was in development into early 2015, and was seen as a stopgap between Ariane 5ECA/Ariane 5ES and the new Ariane 6. With first flight planned for 2018, it would have become ESA's principal launcher until the arrival of the new Ariane 6 version.
Ariane 5 ECA 539 Guiana ELA-3: Star One C2 Vinasat-1: GTO: Success V-183 12 June 2008 22:05 Ariane 5 ECA 540 Guiana ELA-3: Skynet 5C Turksat 3A: GTO: Success V-184 7 July 2008 21:47 Ariane 5 ECA 541 Guiana ELA-3: ProtoStar-1 Badr-6: GTO: Success V-185 14 August 2008 20:44 Ariane 5 ECA 542 Guiana ELA-3: Superbird-7 AMC-21: GTO: Success V-186 20 ...
The alignment function was operative for approximately 40 seconds of flight, which was based on a requirement of Ariane 4, but served no purpose after lift-off on the Ariane 5. [4] The greater values of BH caused a data conversion from a 64-bit floating point number to a 16-bit signed integer value to overflow and cause a hardware exception. [5]
Rockets from the Ariane rocket family have accumulated 260 launches since 1979, 248 of which were successful, yielding a 95.4% success rate. The recently retired Ariane 5, flew 82 consecutive missions without failure between April 2003 and December 2017, but suffered a malfunction during flight VA-241 in January 2018, causing its two satellites to reach an incorrect orbit, and reducing their ...
The Ariane 6’s predecessor, Ariane 5, flew its final voyage in July 2023, ending the rocket’s 27-year run. Europe’s Vega-C rocket, designed for vaulting small satellites to orbit, has also ...
Ariane 5 ECA 555 Guiana ELA-3: Eutelsat W3B BSAT-3b: 8,263 kg GTO: Eutelsat B-SAT: Success Eutelsat W3B suffered leak in the propulsion system shortly after launch and was declared total loss. [3] BSAT-3b, however, is operating normally. V-198 26 November 2010 18:39 Ariane 5 ECA 556 Guiana ELA-3: Intelsat 17 HYLAS-1: 8,867 kg GTO: Intelsat ...
For example, an Ariane 42P is an Ariane 4 with two solid-fuel boosters. An Ariane 44LP has two solid, two liquid boosters, and a 44L has four liquid-fuel boosters. Ariane 5 rocket at Le Bourget Air and Space Museum, Paris. Ariane 5 is a nearly complete redesign. The two hypergolic lower stages are replaced with a single LH2/LOX core stage.
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.