Engineering:List of Ariane launches (2020–2029)

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This is a list of launches performed or scheduled to be performed by Ariane launch vehicles between 2020 and 2029. During this time, the Ariane 5 will be retired in favour of the Ariane 6 rocket.

Launch statistics

Rocket configurations

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Launch outcomes

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Launch history

Source: Arianespace Press Kits [1]

2020

Flight No. Date
Time (UTC) 		Rocket type
Serial No. 		Launch site Payload Payload mass Orbit Customers Launch
outcome
VA251 16 January 2020
21:05 		Ariane 5 ECA
5110 		Kourou
ELA-3 		Eutelsat Konnect
GSAT-30 		6,976 kg GTO Eutelsat
ISRO 		Success
Eutelsat communications satellite and ISRO communications satellite.
VA252 18 February 2020
22:18 		Ariane 5 ECA
5111 		Kourou
ELA-3 		JCSAT-17
GEO-KOMPSAT 2B 		9,236 kg GTO SKY Perfect JSAT
KARI 		Success
SKY Perfect JSAT communications satellite and KARI meteorological satellite.
VA253 15 August 2020
22:04 		Ariane 5 ECA
5112 		Kourou
ELA-3 		Galaxy 30
MEV-2
BSAT-4b 		9,703 kg GTO Intelsat
Northrop Grumman
BSAT 		Success
Flight VA253 was planned to launch in June 2020.[2] However, launch campaign activities were significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To prevent the spread in French Guiana and protect Centre Spatial Guyanais employees, all launch activities were suspended on 16 March 2020.[3][4][5] Operations for Vega flight VV16 and Ariane 5 flight VA253 could not resume until 28 April 2020.[6][7][8] VA253 activities were listed among the top priorities at the reopening of the Guiana Space Center on 11 May 2020.[9] The launch was rescheduled for end of July 2020[7][10][11] to place the satellites into a geostationary transfer orbit from which they will eventually be placed into geostationary orbit through their own propulsion. The flight was again aborted on 28 July 2020, due to a "red" warning in the system, resulting from a sensor problem related to LH2 tank on the core stage.

American satellite operator Intelsat and Japanese Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) are the customers for Ariane flight VA253.[12][13]

Galaxy 30 is a communications satellite built by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (formerly Orbital ATK) on the GEOStar-2 platform for Intelsat. It has C-band, Ku-band, Ka-band payloads, as well as a WAAS payload for a mass of 3,325 kilograms (7,330 lb).[14] Built in satellite manufacturing facility in Dulles, Virginia, it will primarily serve video markets in North America.[15] As per Intelsat/Arianespace contract announced in January 2018,[16] Galaxy 30 would share the upper berth of the Ariane 5 ECA rocket with MEV-2, which is a Northrop Grumman second satellite servicing vehicle, identical to MEV-1. With a mass of 2,326 kilograms (5,128 lb), it would begin a five-year mission to extend the lifetime of Intelsat 10-02.[17] MEV-2 received FCC authorization on 25 March 2020.[18]

BSAT-4b is the second communications satellite of the fourth generation B-SAT, built by SSL on its SSL 1300 platform. It has 24 Ku-band transponders and mass of 3,520 kilograms (7,760 lb).[19]

2021

Flight No. Date
Time (UTC) 		Rocket type
Serial No. 		Launch site Payload Payload mass Orbit Customers Launch
outcome
VA254 30 July 2021
21:00 		Ariane 5 ECA
5113 		Kourou
ELA-3 		Eutelsat Quantum
Star One D2 		10,515 kg GTO Eutelsat
Star One 		Success
Brazilian Satellite operator Embratel and European Eutelsat were customers on the VA254 flight.[20]

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.[17] It had a launch mass of approximately 3,461 kilograms (7,630 lb) and a design lifetime of 15 years.[21]

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.[14] It had a launch mass of approximately 6,190 kilograms (13,650 lb) and a design lifetime of 15 years.[21]

The target orbit was a geosynchronous transfer orbit with an apogee altitude of 250 kilometres (160 mi) and a perigee altitude of 35,726 kilometres (22,199 mi), at an inclination of 3°.[21]

The mission was planned to last 36 minutes and 24 seconds.[21][lower-alpha 1]

VA255 24 October 2021
02:10 		Ariane 5 ECA
5115 		Kourou
ELA-3 		SES-17
Syracuse 4A 		10,264 kg GTO SES S.A.
DGA 		Success
SES S.A. communications satellite and Direction générale de l'armement military communications satellite.
VA256 25 December 2021
12:20 		Ariane 5 ECA
5114 		Kourou
ELA-3 		James Webb Space Telescope 6,161.4 kg Sun–Earth L2 NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI Success
James Webb Space Telescope.

2022

Flight No. Date
Time (UTC) 		Rocket type
Serial No. 		Launch site Payload Payload mass Orbit Customers Launch
outcome
VA257 22 June 2022
21:50 		Ariane 5 ECA
5116 		Kourou
ELA-3 		MEASAT-3d
GSAT-24 		9,829 kg GTO MEASAT
NSIL / Tata Play 		Success
MEASAT communications satellite and NSIL communications satellite.
VA258 7 September 2022
21:45 		Ariane 5 ECA
5117 		Kourou
ELA-3 		Eutelsat Konnect VHTS 6,400 kg GTO Eutelsat Success
Eutelsat communications satellite.
VA259 13 December 2022
20:30 		Ariane 5 ECA Kourou
ELA-3 		Galaxy 35
Galaxy 36
MTG-I1 		10,972 kg GTO Intelsat
EUMETSAT 		Success
Intelsat communications satellite and EUMETSAT meteorological satellite.
  1. ↑ Statistics for flight VA254:[22]
    • 330th Arianespace launch (6th in 2021)
    • 254th Ariane launch (1st in 2021)
    • 110th Ariane 5 launch (1st in 2021)
    • 947th and 948th satellites put in orbit by Arianespace (151st and 152nd in 2021)
    • 12th Embratel satellite launched by Arianespace
    • 36th Eutelsat satellite launched by Arianespace
    • 85th consecutive rated operation of the Vulcain 2 engine
    • 110th consecutive rated operation of the EAP solid rocket boosters
    • 150th consecutive rated operation of the HM7B engine

Future launches

This section is transcluded from Ariane 5. (edit | history)
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References

  1. ↑ "Press kits Archive - Arianespace". http://www.arianespace.com/press-kits/. 
  2. ↑ Forrester, March 17, 2020, "The next scheduled commercial launches include a Galaxy 30 satellite (for Intelsat) and BSAT-4b (for Japanese satellite operator BSAT) which were scheduled for launch together in June"
  3. ↑ Arianespace, March 16, 2020, "Face à l'épidémie de Covid-19 et pour mettre pleinement en œuvre les mesures décidées par le gouvernement français, les campagnes de lancement en cours au Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) sont suspendues".
  4. ↑ CNES, March 16, 2020, "Au Centre Spatial Guyanais, suspension des campagnes de lancement, mise et maintien en sécurité des moyens opérationnels de la base, des lanceurs et des satellites en attente de lancement".
  5. ↑ CNES, March 23, 2020, "All launch preparations have been suspended due to the potential uncertainty and danger of the health situation at a time when great care needs to be taken to prevent the spread of the epidemic in French Guiana".
  6. ↑ CNES, April 28, 2020, "Operations to ready for Vega flight VV16 and Ariane 5 flight VA253 have resumed. Teams stationed permanently in French Guiana have been working to restore the base to its operational configuration since 21 April, applying the necessary distancing and transmission reduction measures."
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Arianespace, April 29, 2020, "Following the measures presented by the French government on 28 April 2020 as part of the gradual resumption of activity planned from 11 May 2020, and the announcement of a restart of operational activities at the Guiana Space Center, Arianespace confirms its following launch objectives: [...] Flight VA253 – A dual-payload Ariane 5 mission for two customers, Intelsat and B-SAT, at the end of July 2020".
  8. ↑ Henry 2020, "The reopening of the Guiana Space Centre, which suspended operations in mid-March as part of France's effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, is expected to allow Arianespace to resume satellite launches from there by mid-June."
  9. ↑ CNES, May 11, 2020, "Priority projects and operations that will be resuming on site at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) are: the Vega VV16 and Ariane VA253 launch campaigns and the arrival of teams who will be observing a strict 14-day quarantine from 11 and 25 May respectively".
  10. ↑ Forrester, May 1, 2020, "These will be launched on a single Ariane 5 rocket currently scheduled for the end of July".
  11. ↑ Kanayama 2020, "VA253 is set to launch at the end of July".
  12. ↑ Forrester, May 1, 2020, "The next commercial geostationary launch is for Galaxy 30 (3325 kg) for Intelsat on flight VA253 which has two important co-passengers. The first is a slightly larger satellite for Japan's BSat4B (3520 kg). But of perhaps extra importance is the second "space tug" for Northrop Grumman and its rescue craft MEV-2".
  13. ↑ Kanayama 2020, "The next mission for Arianespace after VV16 is VA253 with the Ariane 5 rocket. It will carry the Galaxy-30, MEV-2, and the BSat-4B satellites".
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Krebs, Galaxy 30 2020, "Intelsat awarded in January 2018 a contract to build the Galaxy 30 Ku- and Ka-band communications satellite to Orbital ATK, now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (NGIS). This satellite will be based on the flight-proven GEOStar-2 platform".
  15. ↑ Northrop Grumman, Galaxy 30, 2020, "The satellite will be designed, built and tested at Northrop Grumman's state-of-the-art satellite manufacturing facility in Dulles, Virginia, and will primarily serve video markets in North America".
  16. ↑ Arianespace, January 9, 2018, "The first launch will carry the Galaxy 30 satellite together with the Orbital ATK Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV-2) as a stacked pair".
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Krebs, MEV 1, 2 2020, "A second MEV was ordered for Intelsat in January 2018. MEV-2 is expected to be in service by mid-2020 on a five-year mission [...] MEV-2 will share the upper berth of an Ariane-5ECA+ rocket with Galaxy 30 [...]. The initial mission of MEV-2 is to extend the life of Intelsat 10-02".
  18. ↑ FCC, MEV-2, 2020 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  19. ↑ Krebs, BSat 4a, 4b 2020, "BSAT-4a will have 24 Ku-band transponders and will expand the availability of advanced television services such as high definition and 4K/8K ultra-high definition television. BSAT-4a is based on the highly reliable SSL-1300 platform"
  20. ↑ "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/. 
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 "VA254 launch kit". Arianespace. November 2021. https://www.arianespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/VA254-launchkit-EN3.pdf. 
  22. ↑ "Double success for Ariane 5: satellites Star One D2 and EUTELSAT QUANTUM placed in geostationary transfer orbit". Arianespace. 30 July 2021. https://www.arianespace.com/press-release/double-success-for-ariane-5-satellites-star-one-d2-and-eutelsat-quantum-placed-in-geostationary-transfer-orbit/. 





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