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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.
An orbital launch vehicle must lift its payload at least to the boundary of space, approximately 150 km (93 mi) and accelerate it to a horizontal velocity of at least 7,814 m/s (17,480 mph). [2] Suborbital vehicles launch their payloads to lower velocity or are launched at elevation angles greater than horizontal.
On 4 May 2007, an Ariane 5-ECA rocket set a new commercial payload record, lifting two satellites with a combined mass of 9.4 tonnes. [ 3 ] By January 2006, 169 Ariane flights had boosted 290 satellites, successfully placing 271 of them on orbit (223 main passengers and 48 auxiliary passengers) for a total mass of 575,000 kg successfully ...
Ariane 5 ECA 551 Guiana ELA-3: Astra 3B COMSATBw-2: 9,116 kg GTO: SES MilSat Services Success V-195 26 June 2010 21:41 Ariane 5 ECA 552 Guiana ELA-3: Arabsat-5A Chollian: 8,393 kg GTO: Arabsat KARI: Success V-196 4 August 2010 20:59 Ariane 5 ECA 554 Guiana ELA-3: Nilesat-201 RASCOM-QAF 1R: 7,085 kg GTO: Nilesat RASCOM: Success V-197 28 October ...
The launch weight would be up to 21,000 kg (46,000 lb), the practical upper limit of an extended Ariane 5 launcher. Hermes was to be launched as the upper stage of the Ariane 5. Prior to the 1986 redesign, Hermes was a single spaceplane containing (front to back) a crew compartment for six, an airlock, an unpressurized cargo hold similar to ...
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).