{"id":86952,"date":"2011-03-29T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-29T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T00:00:00","slug":"the-second-ariane-5-flight-of-2011-enters-its-final-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=86952","title":{"rendered":"The second Ariane 5 flight of 2011 enters its final countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final countdown for today\u0092s Ariane 5 flight with the Yahsat Y1A and Intelsat New Dawn telecommunications satellites is underway at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport. Liftoff of the heavy-lift vehicle is scheduled at the start of a launch window that opens at 6:45 p.m., local time in French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p>Ariane 5\u0092s payload lift performance for this mission is nearly 10,065 kg., which includes a mass of 8,965 kg. for its two satellite passengers, along with the associated integration hardware and the launcher\u0092s SYLDA multi-payload dispenser system.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4: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=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><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=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Arianespace\/~4\/SsE_CbZI984\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final countdown for today\u0092s Ariane 5 flight with the Yahsat Y1A and Intelsat New Dawn telecommunications satellites is underway at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport. Liftoff of the heavy-lift vehicle is scheduled at the start of a launch window that opens at 6:45 p.m., local time in French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p>Ariane 5\u0092s payload lift performance for this mission is nearly 10,065 kg., which includes a mass of 8,965 kg. for its two satellite passengers, along with the associated integration hardware and the launcher\u0092s SYLDA multi-payload dispenser system.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4: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=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><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=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=SsE_CbZI984:OKRsHAvzFr4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Arianespace\/~4\/SsE_CbZI984\" 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-86952","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\/86952","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=86952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223674,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86952\/revisions\/223674"}],"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=86952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}