Jacques van Oene
September 18th 05, 06:33 PM
September 16, 2005
Ariane 5 rolls out to the Spaceport's Final Assembly Building for payload
integration
Preparations for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission marked an important
milestone today as the launcher was transferred from the integration
building to the final assembly facility at Europe's Spaceport in French
Guiana.
Today's rollout clears the way for the mission's two payloads to be
integrated atop the Ariane 5, and enables final preparations to be completed
for the planned September 29 liftoff.
The upcoming flight uses an Ariane 5 Generic version, which will carry the
dual payload of France's Syracuse 3A governmental military communications
satellite and the U.S. Galaxy 15 commercial telecom spacecraft for PanAmSat.
This mission is one of three Ariane 5 flights planned before year-end from
Europe's Spaceport. The other two also will be dual satellite payload
missions, using an Ariane 5 Generic and a heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA vehicle.
Spacecraft scheduled to be orbited by these flights are India's Insat 4A
telecommunications satellite, the MSG 2 meteorological platform for Europe,
the U.S. Spaceway 2 broadband spacecraft, and Indonesia's TELKOM 2 C-band
telecommunications satellite.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info
Ariane 5 rolls out to the Spaceport's Final Assembly Building for payload
integration
Preparations for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission marked an important
milestone today as the launcher was transferred from the integration
building to the final assembly facility at Europe's Spaceport in French
Guiana.
Today's rollout clears the way for the mission's two payloads to be
integrated atop the Ariane 5, and enables final preparations to be completed
for the planned September 29 liftoff.
The upcoming flight uses an Ariane 5 Generic version, which will carry the
dual payload of France's Syracuse 3A governmental military communications
satellite and the U.S. Galaxy 15 commercial telecom spacecraft for PanAmSat.
This mission is one of three Ariane 5 flights planned before year-end from
Europe's Spaceport. The other two also will be dual satellite payload
missions, using an Ariane 5 Generic and a heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA vehicle.
Spacecraft scheduled to be orbited by these flights are India's Insat 4A
telecommunications satellite, the MSG 2 meteorological platform for Europe,
the U.S. Spaceway 2 broadband spacecraft, and Indonesia's TELKOM 2 C-band
telecommunications satellite.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info