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Hot Bird 7 & Stentor

Ariane 5 ECA

Arianespace

Launch Status
Failure

Mission

Hot Bird 7 & Stentor

Type: Communications

Hot Bird 7 was a French communications satellite for direct to home broadcasting services from geostationary orbit at a longitude of 13 degrees East. Stentor is an experimental programme to validate technologies to be integrated into the next generation of telecommunications spacecraft.

Trajectory

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Location

Ariane Launch Area 3

Kourou, French Guiana

319 rockets have launched from Kourou, French Guiana.

Ariane Launch Area 3, Kourou, French Guiana

Agency

Arianespace – ASA

  • Type: Commercial
  • Abbreviation: ASA
  • Administration: CEO: Stéphane Israël
  • Founded: 1980
  • Launchers: Ariane | Vega
  • Country: FRA

Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world’s first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane programme. Their vehicles launch exclusively from French Guiana in South America.

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