Ariane Flight VA221
with DIRECTV-14 and GSAT-16
overview
- Launch vehicle
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Launch date
- December 6, 2014
- Status
- Success
- Payload(s)
- DIRECTV-14, GSAT-16
- Customer(s)
- DIRECTV, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
- Prime contractor(s)
- SPACE SYSTEMS/LORAL, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
- Mission length
- 00:51:19
- Orbit
- Geostationary transfer orbit (GTO)
- Launch site
- Spaceport, French Guiana (Guiana Space Center)
mission update
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Ariane 5 delivers DIRECTV-14 and GSAT-16 to orbit on Arianespace’s latest mission success
Telecommunications satellites for two long-standing Arianespace customers were launched today on the company’s sixth Ariane 5 flight in 2014, extending the heavy-lift workhorse’s string of consecutive successes to 63.
