Ariane Flight VA226
with Sky Muster and ARSAT-2
overview
- Launch vehicle
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Launch date
- September 30, 2015
- Status
- Success
- Payload(s)
- Sky Muster I, ARSAT-2
- Customer(s)
- nbn, ARSAT
- Prime contractor(s)
- SSL, INVAP
- Mission length
- 00:49:36
- Orbit
- Geostationary transfer orbit (GTO)
- Launch site
- Spaceport, French Guiana (Guiana Space Center)
mission update
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Maintaining Arianespace’s 2015 launch cadence: Ariane 5 orbits Sky Muster and ARSAT-2
Two telecommunications satellites that will provide expanded relay capacity for Australia and Argentina were orbited today on Arianespace’s ninth mission in 2015 – putting the company on track to perform a record 12 flights this year using its three-member launch vehicle family, which consists of the heavy-lift Ariane 5, medium-lift Soyuz and lightweight Vega.
