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The Ariane 64 configuration provides added performance to deliver a ViaSat-3 satellite into a high-energy geostationary transfer orbit to enable faster on-orbit operations.
Moving the ViaSat-3 launch to the Ariane 64 completes Viasat’s integrated launch strategy designed to achieve on-time launches through launch vehicle diversity and integrated launch planning.
Viasat is the first commercial customer to commit to launch on the Ariane 64 launcher.
Under the modified contract, the ViaSat-3 satellite was moved from an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle to the Ariane 64 (A64) launcher.
Inmarsat has a fifth Global Xpress satellite, GX-5 from Thales Alenia Space, scheduled to launch later 2019 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Hylas-3 hosted payload is scheduled to launch on 2019-07-24 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
ArianeGroup is the Franco-German company building Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket.
ESA projects that Icarus could be ready for Ariane 6 by 2025 if it is fully funded.
The European Space Agency awarded contracts to ArianeGroup and MT Aerospace on 2019-05-14 to develop a prototype upper stage called PHOEBUS.
ArianeGroup and Avio are using booster commonality of the P120C between Ariane 6 and Vega C to increase production scale and lower costs for both rockets.
Avio planned one more test-firing of Vega C’s first-stage P120C engine later in 2019 to evaluate the booster configured as a strap-on for Ariane 6.
The Ariane 6 uses two to four strap-on P120C boosters to provide additional power at liftoff.
Eutelsat has a 75-gigabit-per-second Ka-band satellite named Konnect built by Thales Alenia Space that is slated to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket at the end of the year.
ArianeGroup received an order from Airbus Defence and Space for 10 reflector antennas for two Eutelsat Hotbird broadcast satellites that Airbus is building.
The two Eutelsat Hotbird broadcast satellites that Airbus is building will use reflectors different from ArianeGroup’s newly developed version.
ArianeGroup reduced production time for reflector antennas to six to nine months from an average of 10 to 14 months by using a design-to-manufacturer approach.
ArianeGroup aims to build the Ariane 6 at least 40 percent cheaper than the Ariane 5.
ArianeGroup hosted breakfasts where employees from across the company could gather and share ideas to improve reflector antennas.
ArianeGroup, the Airbus-Safran joint venture, builds satellite components through a division inherited from Airbus Defence and Space in 2015.
ESA wants Ariane 64 to be an option for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission but will consider launching JUICE on Ariane 64 only after a commercial Ariane 64 launch has occurred.