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For its first launch of the year, Arianespace will orbit two telecommunications
satellites: SPAINSAT for the Spanish military operator HISDESAT, and HOT
BIRD 7A for EUTELSAT.
Combining reliability and availability, Arianespace and Ariane continue to be
the benchmark launch system for leading European operators.
SPAINSAT is the first Spanish satellite dedicated to secure government
communications. Its operator is HISDESAT, a company founded in 2001 by
Hispasat, INSA (a wholly-owned subsidiary of INTA), EADS CASA Espacio, Indra
and Sener. Its first customer is the Spanish ministry of defense. SPAINSAT will
take over for the Secomsat military payloads on the Hispasat 1A and 1B satellites,
launched by Arianespace in 1992 and 1993.
Weighing about 3,700 kg at launch, Spainsat was built by Space Systems/Loral in
Palo Alto, California. It will be positioned at 30 degrees West, over the Atlantic,
and will have 13 X-band transponders and one Ka-band transponders. Spanish
industry will supply several major subassemblies, plus the ground segment.
SPAINSAT is the 25th military payload to be launched by Ariane.
HOT BIRD 7A will be located at 13 degrees East, Eutelsats flagship
neighbourhood for TV and radio broadcasting.
Built by Alcatel Alenia Space, HOT BIRD 7A will weigh about 4,100 kg at launch.
Fitted with 38 Ku-band transponders, it is designed to renew current capacity and
also provide redundancy for the HOT BIRD family. Eutelsat now transmits more
than 850 television channels and 550 radio stations from this orbital position to
some 110 million households in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
HOT BIRD 7A will be the 21st satellite launched by Arianespace for the European
operator Eutelsat.
1 - The ARIANESPACE mission
2 - Range operations campaign: ARIANE 5 - SPAINSAT/HOT BIRD 7A
3 - Flight Trajectory
4 - The ARIANE 5 launch vehicle
5 - The SPAINSAT satellite
6 - The HOT BIRD 7A satellite
Appendix
1. Flight Key personnel
2. Launch environment conditions
3. Synchronized sequence
4. ARIANESPACE, its relations wich ESA and CNES
Injection orbit
Perigee altitude
250 km
Apogee altitude
35,966 km at injection
Inclination
5 degrees
The lift-off is scheduled on the night of march 9 to 10, 2006 as soon as possible within the following launch
window:
Launch opportunity
Universal time (GMT)
Washington time
Kourou time
Between
10:06 pm
11:06 pm
05:06 pm
07:06 pm
and
11:13 pm
00:13 am
06:13 pm
08:13 pm
on
March 9, 2006
March 9, 2006
March 9, 2006
Ariane
payload configuration
The SPAINSAT satellite was designed, assembled and integrated by
Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto, California, for the operator Hisdesat.
Orbital position: 30 degrees West, over the Atlantic Ocean.
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SPAINSAT
HOT BIRD 7A
Time
11 h
7h
5h
3h
1h
HO
+ 2 mn
+ 3 mn
+ 8 mn
+ 8 mn
+ 9 mn
+ 9 mn
+ 13 mn
+ 18 mn
+ 23 mn
+ 24 mn
+ 27 mn
+ 30 mn
+ 32 mn
+ 51 mn
30 mn
30 mn
50 mn
20 mn
10 mn
16 mn 00 s
4 mn 00 s
1 mn 00 s
- 05,5 s
04 s
03 s
Events
Start of final countdown
Check of electrical systems
Start of filling of main cryogenic stage with liquid oxygen and hydrogen
Chilldown of Vulcain main stage engine
Check of connections between launcher and telemetry, tracking and command systems
All systems go report, allowing start of synchronized sequence
Tanks pressurized for flight
Switch to onboard power mode
Command issued for opening of cryogenic arms
Onboard systems take over
Unlocking of guidance systems to flight mode
ALT (km)
Ignition of the cryogenic main stage engine (EPC)
+ 7,0 s Ignition of solid boosters
0
0
+ 7,3 s Liftoff
+ 13 s
End of vertical climb and beginning of pitch rotation (10 seconds duration) 0.105
+ 17 s
Beginning of roll manoeuvre
0.330
19 s
Jettisoning of solid boosters
64.2
15 s
Jettisoning of fairing
105.1
00 s
Acquisition by Natal tracking station
156.7
56 s
Shut-down of main cryogenic stage
156.3
02 s
Separation of main cryogenic stage
156.6
06 s
Ignition of upper cryogenic stage (ESC-A)
156.8
158.3
Acquisition by Ascension tracking station
47 s
18 s
Acquisition by Libreville tracking station
187.8
450.5
Acquisition by Malindi tracking station
19 s
45 s
Shut-down of ESC-A / Injection
597.0
923.2
Separation of SPAINSAT satellite
04 s
44 s
Separation of Sylda 5
1621.3
05 s
Separation of HOR BIRD 7A satellite
1888.0
40 s
End of Arianespace Flight mission
6823.4
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V. rel. (m/s)
0
0
40
74
1943
2206
5750
6869
6895
6897
7075
8358
9160
9403
9176
8667
8489
6168
3. Flight trajectory
The launchers attitude and trajectory are totally controlled by the two onboard computers, located in the
Ariane 5 vehicle equipment bay (VEB).
7.05 seconds after ignition of the main stage cryogenic engine at T-0, the two solid-propellant boosters are
ignited, enabling liftoff. The launcher first climbs vertically for 6 seconds, then rotates towards the East. It
maintains an attitude that ensures the axis of the launcher remains parallel to its velocity vector, in order to
minimize aerodynamic loads throughout the entire atmospheric phase, until the solid boosters are jettisoned.
Once this first part of the flight is completed, the onboard computers optimize the trajectory in real time,
minimizing propellant consumption to bring the launcher first to the intermediate orbit targeted at the end of
the main stage propulsion phase, and then the final orbit at the end of the flight of the storable propellant stage.
The main stage falls back off the coast of Africa in the Atlantic Ocean (in the Gulf of Guinea).
On orbital injection, the launcher will have attained a velocity of approximately 9,403 meters/second, and will
be at an altitude of about 597 kilometers.
The fairing protecting the SPAINSAT/HOT BIRD 7A spacecraft is jettisoned shortly after the boosters are
jettisoned at about T+195 seconds.
Standard Ariane 5 trajectory for geostationary transfer orbit
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H14,6
ESC-A - Cryogenic upper stage
(EADS SPACE Transportation)
Height: 4.71 m
Mass: 19 t
HM-7B (Snecma)
Thrust: 65 kN
970 sec of propulsion
H173
EPC - Main cryogenic stage
(EADS SPACE Transportation)
31 m long
Mass: 188.3 t
P240
Propellants (in ton)
at H 0
H: Cryogenic
P: Solid
780 tons
total mass at lift-off
13.000 kN at Lift-off
(at H0 + 7 to 8 sec)
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Customer
HISDESAT
Prime contractor
Mission
Mass
3,683 kg
Dry mass
1,467 kg
Stabilization
3 axis stabilized
Dimensions
Span in orbit
31,4 m
Platform
FS 1300
Payload
On-board power
Life time
15 years
Orbital position
30 West
Coverage area
Press Contact:
Iciar TORRALDO
HISDESAT
Tl. : +34 91 449 01 49
E-mail : hisdesat@hisdesat.es
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Customer
EUTELSAT
Prime contractor
Mission
Mass
4,100 kg
Dry mass
1,740 kg
Stabilization
3 axis stabilized
Dimensions
at launch
span in orbit
36,9 m
Platform
SPACEBUS 3000 B3
Payload
38 Ku band transponders
On-board power
9 kW (end of life)
Life time
15 years
Orbital position
13 East
Coverage area
Press Contact:
Vanessa OCONNOR
EUTELSAT
Tl. : +33 (1) 53 98 47 57 - Fax : +33 (1) 53 98 37 88
E-mail : voconnor@eutelsat.fr
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Philippe ROLLAND
ARIANESPACE
Luca CHIECCHIO
Michal CALLARI
ARIANESPACE
ARIANESPACE
EUTELSAT
EUTELSAT
Alcatel Alenia Space
Jean-Pierre BARLET
Bernard DONAT
ARIANESPACE
ARIANESPACE
Bruno GILLES
Patrice BENNAROCHE
CNES/CSG
CNES/CSG
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