Mission Update
Ariane 5's launch with Amazonas 2 and COMSATBw-1 is set for October 1
September 28, 2009
Arianespace’s fifth flight of 2009 has been rescheduled to the evening of October 1, allowing complementary checks to be performed on the heavy-lift Ariane 5 launcher.
The Ariane 5 currently is positioned in the Spaceport’s Final Assembly Building, where the vehicle and its dual-passenger payload of the Amazonas 2 and COMSATBw-1 telecommunications satellites are in a safe mode.
With this new timing, the mission’s launch readiness review will be conducted on September 29, which will clear the Ariane 5 for its rollout to the launch zone on the following day. Liftoff is planned on October 1 at the start of a 1 hr. 11 min. launch window that opens at 6:59 p.m. local time in French Guiana.
Arianespace remains on schedule to perform a total of seven Ariane 5 missions during 2009 – which will be the busiest year of launch activity for the workhorse launcher since its commercial introduction in 1999.
- The press release announcing this flight’s liftoff rescheduling to October 1 is available for review.
- See the official Arianespace launch kit for further information on the upcoming mission.
Launch Window for the Amazonas 2 & COMSATBw-1 mission |
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Universal time (GMT) |
Paris, France |
Kourou, French Guiana |
Washington, D.C., USA |
Tokyo, Japan |
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Between 09:59 p.m.
and 11:10 p.m. on |
Between 11:59 p.m. and 01:10 a.m. on |
Between 06:59 p.m. and 08:10 p.m. on October 1, 2009 |
Between 05:59 p.m. and 07:10 p.m. on October 1, 2009 |
Between 06:59 a.m. and 08:10 a.m. on October 2, 2009 |
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