{"id":1870,"date":"2023-07-10T17:35:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacepreneurmag.com\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2023-07-10T17:35:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T17:35:41","slug":"ariane-5-flight-va261-follow-the-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/10\/ariane-5-flight-va261-follow-the-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariane 5 Flight VA261: Follow the Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Europe\u2019s Ariane 5 rocket is being prepared for its final flight. You can follow the launch live on ESA Web TV. Flight VA261 will lift off as soon as 16 June at 23:26 CEST, pending suitable conditions for launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Broadcast begins 22:55 CEST\/21:55 BST on ESA Web TV<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liftoff scheduled for 23:26 CEST\/22:26 BST\/21:26 UTC\/18:26 Kourou<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Flight VA261 will carry to space two payloads \u2013 the German space agency DLR\u2019s experimental communications satellite Heinrich Hertz and the French communications satellite Syracuse 4b.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flight will be the 117th mission for Ariane 5, a series which began in 1996. Notable Ariane 5 payloads have included ESA\u2019s comet-chasing Rosetta, a dozen of Europe\u2019s Galileo navigation satellites \u2013 orbited with just three launches \u2013 and the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Ariane 5\u2019s next-to-last launch sent ESA\u2019s Juice mission to Jupiter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This heavy launcher more than doubled the mass-to-orbit capacity of its predecessor, Ariane 4, which flew from 1988 until 2003 as a favourite of the telecommunications industry with its need to put large payloads into very high geosynchronous orbits. Ariane 5\u2019s capacity enables it to orbit two large telecommunications satellites on a single launch, or to push large and heavy payloads into deep space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s Ariane 5 rocket is being prepared for its final flight. You can follow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}