The return-to-service mission for the heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA is now targeted for January 2005. Details of Arianespace's new launch planning were provided last week by CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall in Paris. The mission will be the first for a heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA version after the launcher's unsuccessful maiden flight in December 2002.
Today's programme is looking at work that has been done for improving the Vulcan 2 cryogenic engine, including a full-scale test firing filmed in Vernon in France. The Vulcan 2 engine is one of the main improvements of the Ariane 5 ECA compared to the current generic Ariane 5 launcher.
The programme includes an A-roll of six minutes (split audio - English voiceover) and a B-roll with clean international sound.

VULCAN 2 ? Ariane 5 Engine
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December the 11th, 2002, at EuropeÕs Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Lift off for Ariane Flight 157, the maiden flight of Europe's heaviest launch vehicle
Ariane 5 ECA, better known as the 10-tonne Ariane.
On board, two communication satellites
A little later in the night, the emotional voice of an interpreter relays the message
from Flight Director and Arianespace CEO, Jean Yves Le Gall. The mission has not
been successful.
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Vernon in France, home to the ÒD?partement Grosse Propulsion Liquide de
SNECMA MOTEURSÓ, the company that has been producing engines for EuropeÕs
Ariane launchers for decades.
It is here that the Vulcan 1 engine of the generic Ariane 5 launcher was born.
It's known as a cryogenic engine because it burns a mix of liquid hydrogen and
oxygen, forming water vapour and releasing highly concentrated energy pushing
Ariane 5 up into space.
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The Vulcan 2 engine is built on the same principle as its predecess