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Subj: Ariane-5 storable propellant stage
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 02:51:42 EST
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N 39-95 - Paris, 26 September 1995
Joint ESA/CNES press release
Completion of qualification testing on the Ariane-5
storable propellant stage
The last three qualification hot tests on the storable propellant
stage of the Ariane-5 launcher were carried out on 20
September 1995 on the teststand at Lampoldshausen in
Germany.
This test campaign, for which a "flight type" stage was used,
began on 18 July 1995.
A total of 11 tests (two 1000 s tests and nine short or
medium-duration tests lasting 10 s to 100 s) have been
undertaken to simulate the various filling, pressurisation and
burn-out configurations which the stage is likely to encounter
in the course of the different missions Ariane-5 will be called
upon to perform (geostationary transfer orbit, sun-synchronous
orbit, low Earth orbit, reignition etc.).
The Storable Propellant Stage and the Aestus engine which
powers it were developed by the German firm Daimler-Benz
Aerospace (DASA).
The European Space Agency has delegated the management
of its Ariane-5 programme to CNES, the French space
agency.
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