flown missionFailure
Ariane 5 ECA | Hot Bird 7 & Stentor
ArianespaceAriane Launch Area 3 — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Either the launch vehicle did not reach orbit, or the payload(s) failed to separate.
mission
- Name
- Hot Bird 7 & Stentor
- Type
- Communications
- Target orbit
- Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)
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.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Family
- Ariane
- Variant
- ECA
- Provider
- Arianespace
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- FRA
webcasts
launch site
- Pad
- Ariane Launch Area 3
- Location
- Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Country
- GUF
- Timezone
- America/Cayenne
- Coordinates
- 5.2390, -52.7680