Arabsat 5A & COMS 1 (Ariane 5 launched on June 26, 2010)

[EarthlingX]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

 

[MeteorWayne]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

All is green right now...

 

[Zipi]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

they enchanced the launch window with 7 minutes. Seem that they had that much of safety marginal with the launch vehicle performace and now they are trading that off. Hopefully everything goes as planned.

 

[MeteorWayne]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

Countdown started at T-7:00

 

[MeteorWayne]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

T-5:00 and counting

 

[3488]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

T - 2:00 & counting.

Andrew Brown.

 

[Zipi]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

One minute! Let's hope it will go down to the zero!

 

[MeteorWayne]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

T-1:00

 

[MeteorWayne]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

Rats, hold at 16 seconds

 

[Zipi]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

Jean-Yves... Where are you? Countdown stopped to T-16sec.

 

[3488]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

Stopped @ t - 16 seconds.

Andrew Brown.

 

[MeteorWayne]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

Not enough time to recycle, looks like a scrub.

 

[EarthlingX]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

 

[EarthlingX]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

I think Jean-Yves said there was a problem with pressurization of the first stage.

 

[Zipi]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

Jean-Yves were more calm than last time I saw him announcing a scrub... Now let's see how long it takes for a next try. I stand my prediction that it will take at least one week, perhaps more.

 

[3488]

Re: June 24, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

This confirms the scrub for today.

Wonder if they'll try again tomorrow??

Andrew Brown.

 

[EarthlingX]

Re: Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1 (delayed, AGAIN!)

Andrew re-tweeted this :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYw8CufHaGA[/youtube]

This is the first stop of the countdown (at T-0:0:17).

Second :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewLnQK_Q_tc[/youtube]

 

[Zipi]

Re: June 26, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

New launch date has been set and it is June 26. Launch window is the same: 21:41-22:45 GMT (5:41-6:45 pm EDT)

Le forum de la conquête spatiale: http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... l=fr&tl=en
(without Google Translation: http://www.forum-conquete-spatiale.fr/e ... 74-210.htm)

Google translation seems to broke table colors at the site and you can see the actual text by hitting 'Ctrl + A' after page loads.

 

[3488]

Re: June 26, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

I hope to be back in time to watch the launch, I'm out this afternoon & ealier part of the evening.

Andrew Brown.

 

[EarthlingX]

Re: June 26, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

4 min to Webcast start.

http://www.videocorner.tv/videocorner2/live_flv/index.php?langue=en

 

[EarthlingX]

Re: June 26, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

T - 7 min, currently all green.

 

[EarthlingX]

Re: June 26, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

T-1 min.

 

[EarthlingX]

Re: June 26, Ariane 5 - Arabsat 5A & COMS 1

Launched.

 

[EarthlingX]

First stage separation.

 

[Zipi]

Lauch vehicle was visible a quite short time until it flow though clouds. Stream had also some hicups, but basically it worked fine.

Nice launch though and good that Arianespace were able to pull it off even they had difficulties with two other attempts. Thumbs up. ;-)