{"id":247946,"date":"2011-05-08T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6c35dcd2bbf2f7030b99f9db60365923"},"modified":"2011-05-08T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T00:00:00","slug":"final-payload-integration-begins-for-arianespaces-next-ariane-5-mission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=247946","title":{"rendered":"FINAL PAYLOAD INTEGRATION BEGINS FOR ARIANESPACE\u2019S 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\u2019s installation on the launcher\u2019s 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\u2019s payload \u201cstack,\u201d joining its GSAT-8 co-passenger on Arianespace\u2019s 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\u2019s Chunghwa Telecom Company Ltd. for Ku- and C-band relay services across the Middle East, Central Asia, India and Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Arianespace\/~4\/OOXT0rohxZo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/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&rsquo;s installation on the launcher&rsquo;s 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&rsquo;s payload &ldquo;stack,&rdquo; joining its GSAT-8 co-passenger on Arianespace&rsquo;s 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&rsquo;s Chunghwa Telecom Company Ltd. for Ku- and C-band relay services across the Middle East, Central Asia, India and Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=OOXT0rohxZo:0AekJCDqI0c:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Arianespace\/~4\/OOXT0rohxZo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/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-247946","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\/247946","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=247946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247947,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247946\/revisions\/247947"}],"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=247946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}