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Ariane 5 ECA liftoff- 08/2008

auteur: ESA/CNES/Arianespace -Service Optique/Novapix

référence: e-leu12-01330

Image Size 300 DPI: 20 * 30 cm

Ariane 5 ECA, V185 launcher lifts off from Europe's Spaceport at Kourou, in French Guiana, on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits. Lift-off of flight V185 took place at 22:44 CEST/Paris on 14 August 2008 (20:44 UTC/GMT; 17:44 UTC-3/Kourou).The satellites were accurately injected into the correct transfer orbits about 30 minutes later. The payload comprised AMC-21, which will provide will provide 24 Ku-band channels of television and enterprise data distribution services over the USA, the Gulf of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and Superbird 7, which will provide 28 Ku-band channels of broadcast services and mobile terminal links over Japan, eastern Asia and the Pacific Ocean. The payload mass was 8068 kg; the satellite masses totalled 7229 kg, with payload adapters and dispensers making up the additional 839 kg.
 

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2008 - ARIANE - ARIANE 5 - ELA-3 - FRENCH GUIANA - GUIANA SPACE CENTER - KOUROU - LAUNCH - LAUNCH PAD - LAUNCHER - ROCKET - SPACE - SPACE CENTER -