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Fifth year for the launch of Ariane 5

By Laurent Marot Reuters - Friday, November 9, 10:54

Kourou, French Guiana (Reuters) - For its fifth mission of the year, the European launcher Ariane 5 is taking off Friday evening from the base space from Kourou, French Guiana, to put into orbit the satellite Skynet 5B military communications, and satellite telecommunications Brazilian Star One C1.

Twenty-seven minutes after takeoff, scheduled no earlier than 7:04 p.m. local time (22:04 GMT), Ariane 5, its heavy version called "ACE", must file the satellite Skynet 5B geostationary transfer orbit and then six minutes later, the satellite Star One C1.
Weighing 4.6 tonnes at launch, the satellite Skynet 5B was built by Astrium Services, a subsidiary of European aerospace and defense group EADS. He will be operated by Paradigm Secure Communications, another subsidiary of EADS, and will provide secure military communications for the British Ministry of Defence, according to Paradigm.
Weighing 4.1 tonnes at launch, Star One C1 satellite was built by industrialist Franco-Italian Thales Alenia Space for the operator Star One, a subsidiary of Brazilian telecommunications Embratel.

Star One C1 satellite will replace the Brasilsat B2, offering twice the capacity for telephony, television, radio, data transmission and Internet on South America, Central America and Florida according to Embratel. The Brazilian group said it invested $ 500 million in this program.

This launch is the 179th flight of Ariane and the 35th European heavy launcher Ariane 5, which remains in twenty success in a row, including four this year.

world leader in the market launches of commercial communications satellites, Arianespace now has a backlog of 44 satellites to launch, the company said.