Kourou, French Guiana, June 11, 2003 - Arianespace orbited two geostationary communications satellites: Optus and Defence C1 for the Australian operator Optus and the Australian Department of Defence, and BSAT-2c for the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) of Japan under terms of a turnkey contract with Orbital Sciences Corporation of the United States.
To enable the ESOC flight control team to make contact with ESA spacecraft during launch and early orbit, teams of scientific and operational engineers plan and calculate each mission to the highest standard.
The Flight Model of ESA's Artemis telecommunications demonstration satellite arrived at ESTEC in July 1998 for 16 months of testing, beginning with the Large Space Simulator (LSS) in August 1998.
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