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Ariane 4 Successfully Launches New Skies Satellite
By PETER B. de SELDING
Space News Staff Writer
posted: 10:13 am ET
18 December 2002
PARIS -- An Ariane 44L rocket successfully launched New Skies
Satellites' NSS-6 spacecraft Dec. 17 in the next-to-last Ariane 4
mission scheduled before the vehicle is retired in favor of the bigger
Ariane 5 vehicle.
The last Ariane 4 is scheduled to orbit an Intelsat satellite in
February. The launch came six days after the launch failure of the first
upgraded version of Ariane 5.
The 4,750-kilogram NSS-6 will provide Ku- and Ka-band coverage over
Asia, with 10 uplink spot beams in Ka-band -- a relatively unused
section of the radio spectrum -- to permit high-speed access to the
satellite from Ka-band antennas in several of the largest cities in
China and India, as well as Australia.
NSS-6 is a Lockheed Martin A2100 satellite to be operated from New
Skies' 95 degrees east longitude orbital slot. Six wide beam Ku-band
antennas will provide coverage from India through Asia and as far east
as eastern Australia.
New Skies, based in The Hague, Netherlands, also announced that its
NSS-5 satellite, previously known as NSS-803, had been moved from its
slot over the Atlantic Ocean to New Skies Asian slot at 183 degrees east
longitude, over the Pacific Ocean. Commercial transmissions from this
satellite at its new position began Dec. 16.
Launch-services provider Arianespace and the European Space Agency
continue to proceed with preparations for a mid-January launch of the
agency's Rosetta comet-chaser satellite despite uncertainty over whether
failure-review board will clear the basic version of Ariane 5 for launch.
Early indications are that the Dec. 11 failure was caused by the
rocket's Vulcain 2 main-stage cryogenic engine, a more-powerful version
of the motor used on the basic Ariane 5 model. Investigators have been
given a Jan. 6 deadline to determine whether the Ariane 5 to be used for
Rosetta is fit to fly.
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73 de Alan
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