148th ariane mission press kit

Follow the launch live on the internet broadband at www.arianespace.com (starting 20 minutes before lift-off) Arianespace - Flight 145 | 1 ARIANE 5 launches one for environment Arianespace’s 11 th Ariane 5 mission will orbit the European Space Agency’s Envisat environmental satellite. The largest satellite ever built in Europe, Envisat will be placed in a sun- synchronous quasi-polar orbit. Ariane 5 is the only operational launch system capable of carrying satellites this big and heavy into any type of orbit. For the first time, Ariane 5 will be equipped with its long fairing, stretching some 17 meters high. This mission will set new records for a payload on an Ariane launcher at 8,111 kilograms and 10 meters long. Envisat is the highest performance satellite ever built by ESA to moni- tor the state of our planet and the impact of human activities. Day after day, Envisat will transmit an unprecedented stream of environmental data. Combined with data from the ERS-1 and ERS-2 remote sensing satellites, this information will help us follow the evolution of environmental events over more than a decade. Envisat was built by a European consortium of 50 companies led by Astrium. Weighing more than 8,100 kg. at launch, it will be positioned at an altitude of 800 kilometers, with each orbit taking 100 minutes. For most instruments, it will provide global coverage every three days, with exact revisit coverage every 35 days. Envisat is the 50th Astrium-built satellite to be orbited by the European launcher. All ground equipment for Envisat was built by a consortium of 20 companies led by Alcatel Space. 1 - ARIANESPACE Flight 145 mission. 2 - Range operations campaign: ARIANE 145 – ENVISAT. 3 - Launch countdown and flight events. 4 - Flight 145 trajectory. 5 - The ARIANE 5 launch vehicle. 6 - The ENVIS AT satellite. APPENDIX 1. Flight 145 Key personnel. 2. Launch environment conditions. 3. Synchronized sequence. 4. ARIANESPA CE orderbook. 5. ARIA NESP ACE, its relat ions with ESA and CNES. Flight 145

148th ariane mission press kit

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