Do you want to access to this and other private contents?
Log in if you are a subscriber or click here to request service

French satellite to launch

Paris, France - Spot 5 will observe vegetation

The French satellite for Earth observation, Spot 5, will be launched into orbit in the night between next Friday and Saturday from the cosmodrome of Kourou, French Guyana. The satellite, launched by the rocket Ariane 4, will orbit at 830 km from Earth. Spot 5 has been assembled by Astrium, a subsidiary of Eads (75%) and Bae systems (25%). It weighs 3 metric tons and is expected to live for 5 years. The...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 27310
Rome, Italy, 04/30/2002 14:29
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

Similar

AerospaceAirbus-Nasa: collaboration to monitor climate change from space

GRACE-C contract for two spacecraft awarded

Airbus has been awarded a contract to design and build the GRACE-C twin spacecraft by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL (Pasadena, California). This new mission of American Space Agency and the German o... more

AerospaceSpace X: Crew 8 mission launched

Dragon will dock with the space station tomorrow

On Sunday, March 3 at 10:53 pm ET, Falcon 9 launched Dragon’s eighth operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-8) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Spa... more

AerospaceERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

The satellite was launched almost 30 years ago, in 1995

At approximately 18:17 CET (17:17 UTC) on Wednesday 21 February 2024, ESA’s ERS-2 satellite completed its atmospheric reentry over the North Pacific Ocean. No damage to property has been reported.ESA’s sec... more

◄ Previous page