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N? 40-98 - Paris, 21 October 1998
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ESA/CNES/ARIANESPACE JOINT PRESS RELEASE
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ARIANE-5 completes an outstandingly successful test flight
Today Europe confirmed its lead in space transport systems for the 21st
Century. Ariane-5, on its third qualification flight, left no doubts as
to its ability to deliver payloads to geostationary transfer orbit.
The new heavy launcher lifted off in glorious sunshine from the Guiana
Space Centre, Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on Wednesday
21 October 1998 at:
13h 37min 21 sec, Kourou time 16h 37min 21sec, UT 18h 37min 21sec, Paris
time.
The solid-propellant boosters separated as planned at an altitude of
about 62 km, 2mn 23sec after H0. The fairing was jettisoned 3mn 13sec
into the flight, followed by separation of the cryogenic main stage at
9mn 59sec at 139 km. At H0 +12 mn, at an altitude of 209 km, the
Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator was released and 3mn 14sec later the
storable-propellant upper stage propelled the stage assembly and Maqsat
3, a representative mockup of a commercial satellite, towards its
injection point.
At H0+33mn 07sec, the upper stage engine shut down and Maqsat 3 was
injected into geostationary transfer orbit. The parameters calculated
at this precise point in time were:
perigee 1,027 km for 1,028 ((3 km) predicted apogee 35,863 km for
35,898 ((200) predicted inclination 6.999( for 6.998( ((0.05?)
predicted
In Kourou, Fredrik Engstrom, ESA's Director of Launchers and Ariane 503
Flight Director, confirmed: "The third Ariane-5 flight has been a
complete success. It qualifies Europe's new heavy-lift launcher and
vindicates the technological options taken by the European Space
Agency."
For Gerard Brachet, Director General of CNES, the French space agency:
"The success of this third Ariane-5 qualification flight closes the
development phase of this new European launcher. CNES is proud to have
brought the project assigned to it by the European Space Agency to a
successful conclusion. Its continuing task will now be to provide
support to Arianespace as the Ariane-5 launcher goes into the commercial
exploitation phase."
Jean-Marie Luton, Chairman of Arianespace, emphasised: "I should like to
pay tribute to the European Space Agency, CNES and all the industrial
and operational teams here in French Guiana and in Europe on having
successfully completed this programme. With their support, we will now
be offering our customers a launch service combining performance, power,
flexibility and availability in line with today's commercial demands and
those of tomorrow."
Speaking from the European press centre at Evry, Antonio Rodot(, the
Director General of ESA, made the following comment: "The European Space
Agency is already working to meet the challenges of the 21st Century
with increasingly powerful and versatile launchers designed to handle
the widest possible range of space missions." For Alain Bensoussan,
Chairman of CNES: "France is proud to have helped make this ambitious
European programme a success. The Ariane programme, consolidating as it
does Europe's standing in the world space community, is an outstanding
illustration of Europe's capacity to pool its best scientific and
industrial teams in pursuit of a common goal."
In 18 hours' time, a first overall assessment including the ARD mission
will be presented at a press conference in Kourou.
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