Ariane Flight VA214
with Alphasat and INSAT-3D
overview
- Launch vehicle
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Launch date
- July 25, 2013
- Status
- Success
- Payload(s)
- Alphasat, INSAT-3D
- Customer(s)
- Inmarsat, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
- Prime contractor(s)
- Astrium satellites, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
- Launch site
- Spaceport, French Guiana (Guiana Space Center)
- Orbit
- Geostationary transfer orbit (GTO)
mission update
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Arianespace’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission orbits key satellite payloads for Europe and India
Today’s 70th flight of Arianespace’s heavy-lift launcher orbited Europe’s largest ever telecommunications satellite, Alphasat, and India’s latest meteorological spacecraft, INSAT-3D, on the third Ariane 5 mission of 2013.
