flown missionPartial Failure
Ariane 5 G | Artemis & BSAT-2b
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
- Artemis & BSAT-2b
- Type
- Communications
- Target orbit
- Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)
Artemis is a geostationary earth orbit satellite for a ESA data relay satellite, it operates at the 21.5 degrees East. BSAT-2b is a geostationary, commercial communications satellite used for direct television broadcasting across Japan.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
- Fail reason
- Upper stage under-performance left payloads in MEO. Artemis was able to climb to GEO over time with operational propellant, BSAT-2b couldn't compensate and was abandoned.
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 G
- Family
- Ariane
- Variant
- G
- 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