The mission pace is being maintained at Europe’s Spaceport, where elements of the Ariane 5 launcher for Arianespace’s second flight of 2011arrived this week. Carried aboard the MN Colibri sea-going transport ship, the Ariane 5’s core cryogenic stage and payload fairing were delivered along with four upper segments to be used in solid rocket motors for other Ariane 5 launchers.
This second mission of 2011 will orbit the Yahsat 1A for the Al Yah Satellite Communications Company, and Intelsat New Dawn which was produced for the joint venture of Intelsat and a South African investor group led by Convergence Partners