Ariane 5 ECA | Al Yah 3 & SES-14
ArianespaceAriane Launch Area 3 — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Either the launch vehicle reached orbit but did not deliver its payload in the targeted orbit, or an exceptional event made it impossible to consider the mission a success.
mission
- Name
- Al Yah 3 & SES-14
- Type
- Communications
- Target orbit
- Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit (Super-GTO)
Al Yah 3 is a geostationary communications satellite built by Orbital ATK for Yahsat. It weighs 3790 kg, carries 53 Ka-band user beams and 4 gateway beams, and is intended for 15 years of operation in orbit. Al Yah 3 will provide telecommunication services to Africa and Brazil. SES-14 is also a communications satellite to be placed in geostationary orbit, replacing NSS-806 satellite. SES-14 coverage includes the Americas and the North Atlantic Region. Spacecraft also carries a hosted payload for NASA, Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission, which will be imaging Earth's thermosphere and ionospehere for two years.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
- Fail reason
- Payloads placed into an incorrect orbit.
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Family
- Ariane
- Variant
- ECA
- Provider
- Arianespace
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- FRA
launch site
- Pad
- Ariane Launch Area 3
- Location
- Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Country
- GUF
- Timezone
- America/Cayenne
- Coordinates
- 5.2390, -52.7680