Loaded with a payload mass of over ten metric tons, Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket pierced into the twilight haze over French Guiana on Thursday on a flight to redeem itself after a nail-biting mission in January that saw the rocket take a wrong turn and lift its passengers into an erroneous orbit.
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Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket stands ready for its comeback mission a little over two months after taking a wrong turn and leaving a pair of communications satellites in a seriously-deficient orbit.
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The second Ariane 5 of 2018 rolls out from its Final Assembly Building to the ELA-3 launch site at the Guiana Space Center on April 4th in preparation for liftoff with the Superbird 8 / DSN-1 and HYLAS 4 satellites for Japan’s SKY Perfect JSAT/DSN Corp.
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HYLAS 4 – a high-throughput communications satellite built by Orbital ATK for Avanti Communications – arrives at the Guiana Space Center for final processing in preparation for liftoff atop the second Ariane 5 of 2018.
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For its second flight in 2018, Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket will be tasked with lifting Japan’s Superbird-8/DSN-1 satellite and the HYLAS 4 satellite for London-based Avanti Communications.
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