{"id":192406,"date":"2011-05-08T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.feedburner.com:\/\/5daf332165eb1a646866248d5a0a26ed"},"modified":"2011-05-08T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T00:00:00","slug":"final-payload-integration-begins-for-arianespace%c2%92s-next-ariane-5-mission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=192406","title":{"rendered":"FINAL PAYLOAD INTEGRATION BEGINS FOR ARIANESPACE\u0092S NEXT ARIANE 5 MISSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third Ariane 5 flight of 2011 has entered its final preparation phase with the ST-2 satellite\u0092s installation on the launcher\u0092s SYLDA dual-passenger dispenser system during activity at the Spaceport in French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p>ST-2 will be positioned in the upper slot of the mission\u0092s payload \u0093stack,\u0094 joining its GSAT-8 co-passenger on Arianespace\u0092s May 19 flight.<\/p>\n<p>With a liftoff mass of 5,090-kg., ST-2 will be the second Mitsubishi Electric Corporation-built satellite orbited by Arianespace.  It is to be utilized by the ST-2 Satellite Ventures joint company of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) and Taiwan\u0092s Chunghwa Telecom Company Ltd. for Ku- and C-band relay services across the Middle East, Central Asia, India and Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third Ariane 5 flight of 2011 has entered its final preparation phase with the ST-2 satellite\u0092s installation on the launcher\u0092s SYLDA dual-passenger dispenser system during activity at the Spaceport in French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p>ST-2 will be positioned in the upper slot of the mission\u0092s payload \u0093stack,\u0094 joining its GSAT-8 co-passenger on Arianespace\u0092s May 19 flight.<\/p>\n<p>With a liftoff mass of 5,090-kg., ST-2 will be the second Mitsubishi Electric Corporation-built satellite orbited by Arianespace.  It is to be utilized by the ST-2 Satellite Ventures joint company of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) and Taiwan\u0092s Chunghwa Telecom Company Ltd. for Ku- and C-band relay services across the Middle East, Central Asia, India and Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Arianespace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}