Galileo-FOC FM07 (Antonianna), FM12 (Lisa), FM13 (Kimberley), FM14 (Tijmen) – Ariane 5 ES (VA-233) – Куру – 17.11.2016

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Stéphane Israël ‏@arianespaceceo  35 minutes ago

Setting the stage for #Ariane5's first #Galileo mission in November: launcher components arrive in French Guiana

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CNES ‏@CNES  · 47 minutes ago

4 satellites du "GPS européen" @GalileoGNSS sont arrivés en Guyane ! Ils seront lancés ensemble par #Ariane5 #VA233

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http://www.arianespace.com/mission-update/va233-galileo-satellites-prepared-for-launch/

Sep 8, 2016
A quartet of Galileo satellites is prepared for launch on Ariane 5
The four spacecraft to be orbited on Arianespace's first launch of Galileo navigation satellites by Ariane 5 have begun their processing at the Spaceport in preparation for a November liftoff from French Guiana.

One of the four Galileo satellites for Flight VA233 is removed from its protective shipping container during activity inside the Spaceport's S5 preparation facility.
 
This milestone mission – designated Flight VA233 in Arianespace's launcher family numbering system – follows the company's previous launches of Galileo spacecraft in pairs aboard medium-lift Soyuz vehicles.
Flight VA233 is to utilize an Ariane 5 ES version of the heavy-lift workhorse equipped with a storable propellant upper stage. The vehicle will deploy its satellite passengers at a targeted orbit altitude of 23,222 km.
All four spacecraft were delivered this week by a chartered Boeing 747 cargo jetliner, which touched down at Félix Eboué Airport near Cayenne. They were transported by road to the Spaceport's S5 payload processing facility.

 

Arianespace launches Galileo for Europe

Galileo is Europe's civil global satellite navigation system, providing positioning with great precision and reliability. The program is funded and owned by the European Union, with overall responsibility for management and implementation held by the European Commission.
Design and development of the new generation of systems and the technical development of infrastructure are entrusted to the European Space Agency, while the Galileo spacecraft bus is built by OHB System in Bremen, Germany, and the navigation payloads provided by Surrey Satellite Technology in the United Kingdom.
To date, 14 Galileo satellites have been orbited by Arianespace Soyuz launchers on seven missions from French Guiana. With the inaugural Ariane 5 launch, this number will increase to 18. When complete, the Galileo system will consist of 24 operational satellites, along with the ground infrastructure for the provision of positioning, navigation and timing services.
         
The European Commission website – Galileo: ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/galileo/index_en.htm
The European Space Agency website – Galileo: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/Galileo/What_is_Galileo
OHB System website: www.ohb-system.de
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited website: www.sstl.co.uk

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DutchSpace ‏@DutchSpace  · Sep 15

Fitcheck overview of 3 out of 4 of our spacecrafts #Galileo #VA233 #Ariane5

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а есть сайт мониторинга системы?

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http://www.arianespace.com/mission-update/va233-launcher-build-up/

Sep 30, 2016
Arianespace's first Ariane 5 for Galileo takes shape at the Spaceport

Initial integration steps for the Ariane 5 ES launcher to be used on Arianespace Flight VA233 are shown in this photo series. At left and center, the vehicle's core stage is removed fr om its shipping container and transferred for positioning over a mobile launch table inside the Spaceport's Launcher Integration Building. One of the two solid propellant boosters rolls out (at right) for mating to the core stage.

The initial Ariane 5 to loft four global positioning satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system has begun its build-up at the Spaceport in French Guiana for a milestone Arianespace mission in November.
                            
This launcher is an Ariane 5 ES version that began the integration process earlier in the week, with the cryogenic core stage's positioning over a mobile launch pad, followed by integration of the vehicle's two solid propellant boosters.
Designated as Flight VA233 in Arianespace's numbering system, the mission's Ariane 5 is being assembled inside the Spaceport's Launcher Integration Building. Once completed under the direction of production prime contractor Airbus Safran Launchers, it will be moved into the Final Assembly Building wh ere Arianespace takes responsibility for installation of the four Galileo spacecraft.
 

14 Galileo satellites launched by Arianespace...and counting

Arianespace already has orbited 14 Galileo spacecraft, all lofted in pairs on seven previous missions utilizing the company's medium-lift Soyuz launcher – with the most recent conducted last May.
Europe's Galileo navigation system provides highly accurate global positioning services under civilian control. The European Commission funds and manages its Full Operational Capability (FOC) phase, during which the network's complete operational and ground infrastructure will be deployed; with the European Space Agency designated as the system's design and procurement agent.
For its maiden Ariane 5 mission at the service of Galileo, Arianespace's workhorse heavy-lift vehicle will be equipped with a dispenser system that secures the quartet of Galileo satellites in place during ascent, and deploys them in rapid sequence at a targeted release altitude of 23,222 km.
The four spacecraft were built by OHB System in Bremen, Germany, with their navigation payloads provided by Surrey Satellite Technology in the United Kingdom.
                           
Airbus Safran Launchers website: www.airbusafran-launchers.com/
The European Commission website – Galileo: ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/galileo/
The European Space Agency website – Galileo: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/Galileo/What_is_Galileo
OHB System website: https://www.ohb-system.de/
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited website: www.sstl.co.uk/

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http://www.arianespace.com/mission-update/va233-launcher-integration-galileo/

Oct 10, 2016
Ariane 5 is ready to receive its first payload of Galileo satellites for launch by Arianespace

Ariane 5's vehicle equipment bay is hoisted in the Spaceport's Launcher Integration Building for integration on Flight VA233's Ariane 5 ES (photo at left), then lowered into position on the main cryogenic stage (at right).

The first Ariane 5 launcher to orbit Galileo navigation satellites has completed its initial build-up in French Guiana, continuing preparations for Arianespace's November 17 mission fr om the Spaceport to deploy four more of the European-developed global positioning spacecraft.
                            
During activity in the Spaceport's Launcher Integration Building, this heavy-lift vehicle for Arianespace Flight VA233 underwent the assembly process that began by mating Ariane 5's two solid propellant strap-on boosters with the main cryogenic stage.
The next step was integration of the launcher's vehicle equipment bay as well as the installation of Ariane 5's EPS storable propellant stage.
 

From launcher integration to final assembly

After completion of verifications and systems checkout by production prime contractor Airbus Safran Launchers, the Ariane 5 will be moved to the Spaceport's Final Assembly Building – wh ere Arianespace takes authority for payload integration and launch.
The EPS storable propellant upper stage is powered by a re-ignitable engine that operates with MMH and N2O4 propellants. It differentiates Flight VA233's launcher from the Ariane 5 ECA versions, which have a cryogenic upper stage and are typically used on Arianespace missions to geostationary transfer orbits with telecommunications satellites.
For Flight VA233, the Ariane 5 ES will carry the quartet of Galileo satellites (weighing 738 kg. each) and their 447-kg. dispenser system to medium-Earth orbit, for deployment at an altitude of approximately 23,222 km.
 

Ariane 5's first use to deploy Galileo satellites

The upcoming Ariane 5 launch will mark the initial utilization of Ariane 5 in deploying Galileo constellation satellites. Flight VA233 will continue Arianespace's support of the global positioning satellite system, following seven missions performed with the company's medium-lift Soyuz that carries a pair of Galileo spacecraft on each flight. Seven Soyuz missions have delivered a total of 14 navigation satellites into orbit since 2011.
Galileo is a key effort for Europe, offering highly accurate positioning with great precision and reliability via a civil global satellite navigation system. The program is funded and owned by the European Union, with overall responsibility for management and implementation held by the European Commission. Design and development of the new generation of systems and infrastructure has been assigned to the European Space Agency.
The spacecraft to be launched on Flight VA233 were built by OHB System in Bremen, Germany, with their navigation payloads provided by Surrey Satellite Technology in the United Kingdom. Airbus Defence and Space developed the dispenser system that will carry and deploy the satellites from Ariane 5.
Larger versions of the images above are available for downloading from the gallery.
                  
The European Commission website – Galileo: ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/galileo/index_en.htm
The European Space Agency website – Galileo: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/Galileo/What_is_Galileo
OHB System website: https://www.ohb-system.de/
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited website: www.sstl.co.uk/
Airbus Safran Launchers website: www.airbusafran-launchers.com/
Airbus Defence and Space website: https://airbusdefenceandspace.com/

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http://www.arianespace.com/mission-update/galileo-satellites-fueling-ariane-5-launch/

Oct 20, 2016
Four Galileo satellites are "topped off" for Arianespace's milestone Ariane 5 launch from the Spaceport                                                     
The fueling of Europe's four Galileo satellites to be orbited on Arianespace Flight VA233 is being performed in the Spaceport's S3B payload preparation facility.

Fueling operations have begun with the four Galileo spacecraft to be orbited next month from French Guiana on Arianespace's first launch that uses its Ariane 5 in deploying Europe's constellation of navigation satellites.                         
                            
The fueling activity is now underway in the Spaceport's S3B payload preparation facility.  One of the first to be processed is named "Antonianna," after an Italian child who won a European Commission Galileo drawing competition – with one winner sel ected from each member state of the European Union.
Weighing between 715 kg. and 717 kg. each, the quartet of Galileo satellites will have a combined liftoff mass of 2,865 kg., and they will be deployed by Ariane 5 into circular orbit during a mission lasting just under four hours.
 

A morning Ariane 5 launch from the Spaceport

The Ariane 5 launch, designated Flight VA233 in Arianespace's numbering system, is set for a morning departure fr om the Spaceport on November 17 at an exact liftoff time of 10:06:48 a.m. in French Guiana (13:06:48 p.m. Universal Time – UTC).

The Galileo satellite named after "Antonianna," an Italian child who won a European Commission Galileo drawing competition, is prepared for fueling in the Spaceport's S3B payload processing facility.
 
Flight VA233 will mark Arianespace's first use of its heavy-lift Ariane 5 to loft Galileo satellites, following seven previous missions with the company's medium-lift Soyuz. The Soyuz vehicles carried a pair of Galileo spacecraft on each flight, delivering a total of 14 navigation satellites into orbit since 2011.
Galileo is an important infrastructure program for Europe, creating a civil global satellite navigation system that provides highly accurate positioning with great precision and reliability.
This program is funded and owned by the European Union, with overall responsibility for management and implementation held by the European Commission. The European Space Agency has been assigned design and development of the new generation of systems and infrastructure for Galileo.
OHB System in Bremen, Germany built the rectangular-shaped satellites, which are sized at 2.7 x 1.2 x 1.1 meters, with their navigation payloads provided by Surrey Satellite Technology in the United Kingdom.
         
The European Commission website – Galileo: ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/galileo/
The European Space Agency website – Galileo: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/Galileo/What_is_Galileo
OHB System website: https://www.ohb-system.de/
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited website: www.sstl.co.uk/

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DutchSpace ‏@DutchSpace  25 мин.25 минут назад  
Our babies are being integrated on the new @AirbusDS dispenser for the final flight mating in #S3B #CSG #Galileo #VA233 @CNES @Arianespace
 

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CNES ‏@CNES  · 14 minutes ago

En prévision de son lancement le 17 novembre, #Ariane5 #VA233 est transférée au Bâtiment d'Assemblage Final pour y recevoir ses satellites

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http://www.arianespace.com/mission-update/va233-galileo-satellite-integration-begins/

Oct 28, 2016
Galileo satellites begin their launcher hardware integration for Arianespace's November 17 mission with Ariane 5

The launch campaign for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 flight fr om French Guiana has entered its latest phase of preparations, with the mission's four Galileo satellite passengers being installed on their multi-payload dispenser system.      

Two of the four Galileo satellites are shown after their installation on the multi-passenger dispenser system, with a third being positioned for its integration.
 
This activity – performed in the Spaceport's S3B clean room – clears the way for the satellites' integration as a single unit atop the heavy-lift Ariane 5, which was transferred earlier this week from the Launcher Integration Building to the Final Assembly Building, wh ere payload integration is set to occur.
Designated Flight VA233, the upcoming mission will mark Arianespace's first use of Ariane 5 to loft Galileo satellites, following seven previous missions with its medium-lift Soyuz. It is scheduled as the company's ninth launch to be performed in 2016, as well as the sixth this year using the heavy-lift workhorse. Arianespace's full launcher family is rounded out by the light-lift Vega.

Galileo: an important program for Europe

Flight VA233 is scheduled for a November 17 liftoff from the Spaceport in French Guiana at precisely 10:06:48 a.m. local time, with the four Galileo satellites subsequently being deployed into circular orbit during a mission lasting just under four hours.
Galileo is an important infrastructure program for Europe, creating a civil global satellite navigation system that provides highly accurate positioning with great precision and reliability. It is funded and owned by the European Union, with overall responsibility for management and implementation held by the European Commission. Design and development of the new generation of systems and infrastructure has been assigned to the European Space Agency.
OHB System in Bremen, Germany built the Galileo satellites, which are sized at 2.7 x 1.2 x 1.1 meters, while their navigation payloads were supplied by UK-based Surrey Satellite Technology.   
         
The European Commission website – Galileo: ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/galileo/
The European Space Agency website – Galileo: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/Galileo/What_is_Galileo
OHB System website: https://www.ohb-system.de/
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited website: www.sstl.co.uk/

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http://www.arianespace.com/mission-update/galileo-satellites-integration-for-ariane-5-launch/

Nov 4, 2016
Galileo satellites "meet up" with Arianespace's Ariane 5 for the first time
Antonianna, Lisa, Kimberley and Tijmen – the latest Galileo spacecraft for Europe's satellite navigation constellation – have been integrated with their Ariane 5 launcher in French Guiana for a November 17 Arianespace mission.

In preparation for Arianespace's November 17 Ariane 5 mission, four Galileo satellites are lowered into position for installation atop the heavy-lift vehicle's central core.
 
The four satellites – named for winners of a European children's drawing contest – were installed this week on Ariane 5 in the Spaceport's final assembly building, in preparation for Arianespace's 10th mission serving the Galileo program.
Designated Flight VA233 in Arianespace's numbering system, this is the first of those missions that is using a heavy-lift Ariane 5 ES version, with the four satellites configured on a payload dispenser that will release them in pairs into circular orbit.

 

Supporting a key European space program

Arianespace previously has lofted 14 Full Operational Capability (FOC) and In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites for Galileo from French Guiana with seven missions utilizing its medium-lift Soyuz vehicle, along with two other Soyuz flights from the Baikonur Cosmodrome that deployed the GIOVE-A and GIOVE-B experimental satellites.
Galileo is a European initiative to develop a new global satellite navigation system. Under civilian control, it will offer a guaranteed, high-precision positioning service and will end Europe's dependence on the American GPS system.
The Galileo constellation will comprise 24 operational satellites, along with spares, with 14 already orbited by Arianespace.

 

Sixth Ariane 5 mission of 2016

Galileo is funded by the European Union. It features innovative technologies developed in Europe for the benefit of all citizens. The European Commission holds overall responsibility for Galileo's management and implementation, with the European Space Agency assigned design and development of the new generation of systems and infrastructure.
Each of the spacecraft passengers for Flight VA233 weighs between 715 kg. and 717 kg., and were built by OHB System in Germany with U.K.-based Surrey Satellite Technology supplying the navigation payloads.
The November 17 Ariane 5 mission will be Arianespace's sixth heavy-lift flight of 2016 and its ninth overall this year with its complete launcher family, which also includes the Soyuz and lightweight Vega vehicles.

The European Commission website – Galileo: ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/galileo/
The European Space Agency website – Galileo: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/Galileo/What_is_Galileo
OHB System website: https://www.ohb-system.de/
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited website: www.sstl.co.uk/

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http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/11/08/galileo-navigation-satellites-mounted-atop-ariane-5-for-launch-next-week/

Galileo navigation satellites mounted atop Ariane 5 for launch next week             
 November 8, 2016 Stephen Clark
 
The Ariane 5's payload fairing (top) is lowered over the four Galileo satellites already fastened to their carrier module on the Ariane 5 upper stage. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon

An Ariane 5 launcher uniquely modified to loft four of Europe's Galileo navigation satellites on one flight has received its payload for liftoff next week in French Guiana.
The satellite quartet will boost the size of the Galileo fleet to 18 spacecraft. Officials say 24 satellites are needed for the European navigation network to provide global positioning and timing services independent of U.S. or Russian navigation fleets.
Liftoff is set for Nov. 17 at 1306:48 GMT (8:06:48 a.m. EST), or 10:06 a.m. local time at the European-run space base in Kourou, French Guiana.
The launch is a rare morning flight for the Ariane 5, which typically blasts off with large telecommunications satellites with evening launch windows. Next week's mission is timed for the Ariane 5 to deploy the four new Galileo craft into a specific part of the growing navigation fleet, aiming for one of three orbital planes making up the constellation.
Owned and managed by the European Commission with technical support from the European Space Agency, the Galileo program has launched its 14 existing satellites two at a time aboard Russian-made Soyuz boosters from French Guiana.
The Ariane 5 launch next week is the first of at least three flights by the heavy-duty European-made rocket set to send up four Galileo satellites per mission.
 
Ariane 5 technicians oversee the attachment of the Galileo satellites and their dispenser on the rocket's upper stage. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon

The Galileo satellites will ride aboard a specially-modified version of the Ariane 5 ES with a new dispenser developed by Airbus Defense and Space to accommodate four spacecraft bolted together.
The launcher version designed for Galileo missions also features a shortened nose cone enclosing the satellites, and a lightened Vehicle Equipment Bay structure compared to previous Ariane 5 ES flights, which carried heavy 20-ton Automated Transfer Vehicles on cargo runs to the International Space Station.
The Galileo satellites, manufactured in Germany by OHB System and outfitted with British-made navigation payloads from SSTL, are lighter and put less of a load on the Ariane 5's structure.
Engineers also introduced electrical and thermal modifications to allow the Ariane 5's upper stage to coast for more than three hours between engine burns, a requirement to inject the Galileo satellites close to their final operational orbits more than 14,000 miles (about 23,000 kilometers) above Earth.
The Ariane 5 ES configuration replaces the Ariane 5's more commonly-used cryogenic upper stage, powered by a hydrogen-fueled HM7B engine, with an upper stage fitted with a hydrazine-burning Aestus engine. The key difference is the HM7B engine is only designed to fire one time in flight, while the Aestus is capable of multiple starts on the same mission.
Two upper stage burns are necessary for the Nov. 17 launch, but instead of coasting for less than an hour between firings as with previous flights of the Ariane 5 ES variant, the Aestus engine will switch off for more than three hours as the rocket climbs to the 14,000-mile-high altitude of the Galileo fleet for the final injection maneuver.
 
The Ariane 5's nose fairing lowered over the four Galileo satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon

The critical upper stage burns will come after the Ariane 5's main stage Vulcain 2 engine and twin solid rocket boosters propel the launcher off the pad in French Guiana. The 165-foot (50-meter) rocket will turn northeast from the Guiana Space Center, and let go of its two strap-on boosters at about T+plus 2 minutes, 19 seconds.
The Vulcain 2 engine, consuming a mix of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, will fire for around nine minutes, then the upper stage's Aestus powerplant will take over for the first of its two burns.
Separation of the first pair of Galileo satellites is expected at T+plus 3 hours, 35 minutes. The other two spacecraft will deploy from the rocket 20 minutes later.
Each Galileo satellite weighs about 1,580 pounds (717 kilograms) with a full load of fuel, according to a launch information kit released by Arianespace, the Ariane 5's commercial operator.
Next week's launch will mark the sixth Ariane 5 flight of the year, and the 89th overall. It will also be the ninth launch by Arianespace so far in 2016.
Technicians working inside the Guiana Space Center's final assembly building topped off the 16-story rocket last week with the addition of the four satellites mounted on their dispenser Nov. 2. Workers lowered the rocket's payload fairing, made in Switzerland by Ruag Space, over the satellites the next day.
The satellites set to go up Nov. 17 are nicknamed Antonianna, Lisa, Kimberley and Tijmen after the winners of a European children's drawing contest.
Plans call for the Ariane 5 to roll out of the final assembly building for the 1.7-mile (2.7-kilometer) trip to the launch pad Nov. 15, with the final countdown commencing late Nov. 16.
More photos of the Galileo satellites, and their stacking atop the Ariane 5 rocket, are shown below.
 
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon
 

Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon


Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon
 

Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon

 
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon

 
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon

 
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon

 
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon

[Старый]

Чтото я не понял, как выводиться то будут? Ариане сделали таки многоразовое включение?

[Salo]

Володя, буковки ES в заголовке ни о чём не говорят?

[Старый]

Salo пишет:
Володя, буковки ES в заголовке ни о чём не говорят?  

Ариана с гептиловой верхней ступенью от Арианы-5G, разработана для ATV. А у неё чего, было многоразовое включение?

[Salo]

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Launchers/Launch_vehicles/Ariane_5_ES

The Ariane 5 ES version is an evolution of the initial Ariane 5 generic launcher. With a more powerful lower composite, identical to the one used on Ariane 5 ECA, it reuses the small storable propellant stage (EPS: Etage à Propergols Stockables) of the generic version, which has been upgraded to allow reignition and long coast phases.
 EPS reignition maximises the launcher's performance into the target orbit and meets a wider range of mission requirements.
 These capabilities are necessary to deliver the Automated Transfer Vehicle** (ATV) into its rendezvous orbit with the International Space Station or to inject a cluster of four Galileo satellites into their operational orbit.
 Reignition is also required to vacate the injection orbit after releasing the payload. This guarantees a controlled and safe deorbiting of the empty stage and an orbit free of major debris.

[Старый]

Salo пишет:
it reuses the small storable propellant stage (EPS: Etage à Propergols Stockables) of the generic version, which has been upgraded to allow reignition and long coast phases.

Спасибо. Не знал.

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