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Flight V211 Ariane 5 - Satellites: SKYNET 5D – MEXSAT-Bicentenario
18 december 2012
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Flight 211 is the 67th Ariane 5 launch and the seventh in 2012.

It follows on from a series of 52 consecutive successful Ariane 5 launches. An ARIANE 5 ECA (Cryogenic Evolution type A), the most powerful version in the ARIANE 5 range, will be used for this flight.

Flight 211 is a commercial mission for Ariane 5. The L567 launcher is the eleventh in the A5ECA family to be delivered by ASTRIUM to Arianespace as part of the PB production batch. The PB production contract was signed in March 2009 to guarantee continuity of the launch service after completion of the PA batch comprising 30 launchers. The PB production batch comprises 35 A5ECA launchers and covers the period from 2010 to 2016. L567 is consequently the forty-first complete launcher to be delivered to Arianespace, integrated and checked out under ASTRIUM responsibility in the Launcher Integration Building (BIL).

In a dual-payload configuration using the SYLDA 5 “A” system and a long pattern fairing (total height: 17 m), the launcher is the communications satellites SKYNET 5D in the upper position and MEXSAT-Bicentenario in the lower position.

 

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Flight 211 Ariane 5 Satellites: SKYNET 5D – MEXSAT-Bicentenario

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