Engineering:Ariane flight VA254

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Short description: July 2021 flight of an Ariane 5 ECA operated by Arianespace
Ariane flight VA254
Ariane 5 ECA launch
Launch30 July 2021, 21:00:00 UTC
OperatorArianespace
PadKourou, ELA-3
Payload
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Ariane flight VA254 A flight carrying 2 satellites.

Payload

Brazilian Satellite operator Embratel and European Eutelsat are customers on the VA254 flight.[1]

Star One D2 is a telecommunications satellite equipped with C-, Ku-, Ka- and X-band payloads for high-speed telecommunications, television broadcast and fast broadband in South America, Mexico, Central America, and parts of the Atlantic Ocean.[2]

Eutelsat Quantum is a European re-programmable telecommunications satellite equipped with Ku-band payload, developed in a public-private partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA), Eutelsat and Airbus Defence and Space.[3]

Flight

Altitude evolution of the four objects (satellites, SYLDA and upper stage).

See also

Footnotes

Sources

  1. "Arianespace to launch two telecom satellites into geostationary orbit". 20 July 2021. Archived from the original. Error: If you specify |archiveurl=, you must also specify |archivedate=. https://web.archive.org/web/20210720152713/https://www.arianespace.com/press-release/arianespace-to-launch-two-telecom-satellites-into-geostationary-orbit/. 
  1. Krebs, Gunter Dirk (14 May 2020). "Star One D2". Archived from the original. Error: If you specify |archiveurl=, you must also specify |archivedate=. https://web.archive.org/web/20210514041123/https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/starone-d2.htm. 

Citations

  1. Arianespace, July 20, 2021, "A next geostationary launch is for Eutelsat Quantum for operator Eutelsat on flight VA254 and Star One D2 and operator Maxar".
  2. Krebs, Star One D2 2021, "Star One ordered another satellite. And see what it is equipped with".
  3. "Eutelsat Quantum" (in en). https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/eutelsat-quantum.htm.