L'ESA : faits et chiffres


Ariane 5 on the launch pad
 
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.

Members states and ESA flag
 



 
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.

Artemis FM testing in ESTEC
 
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.


 




Last update: 6 avril 2012