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Subj: ARIANE 502 FLIGHT UPDATE
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HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 173.01 FROM AMSAT HQ
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In a Joint ESA/CNES press release it has been announced that the Ariane
502 launch campaign has begun. The joint statement issued by ESA/CNES is
quoted as follows, exactly as received:
"The Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA)
and the Chairman of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
(CNES, the French space agency), acting on the
recommendation made following the Flight Readiness Review
held on 5 and 6 June, have given the go-ahead for the Ariane
502 flight launch campaign to start today, 16 June, at the
Guiana Space Centre, Europe's spaceport at Kourou in French
Guiana. This decision follows detailed reviews conducted
over the past few months on the launch vehicle itself and the
corresponding ground facilities (see ESA/CNES release of 24
March).
Over the next few weeks, mechanical, fluid and electrical
integration of the cryogenic main stage, the solid booster
stage, the vehicle equipment bay and the upper stage of the
launcher will be proceeding in the Launcher Integration
Building, while preparatory work will be under way in the
Final Assembly Building on the upper composite: the Speltra,
the fairing and the payload made up of two technological
instrument platforms, Maqsat H and B and two satellites:
Teamsat (a satellite flying five European technology
experiments and Amsat P3D (an international radio amateur
satellite). Meanwhile, various tests, flight program functional
simulations in particular, will be continuing in Europe.
These various operations are planned to lead to integration of
the upper composite and filling of the upper stage and the
attitude control system with propellant, the target date for the
Ariane 502 flight now being set as from the end of September
this year."
[ANS thanks ESA and CNES for this information.]
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