Arianespace Ariane 44L NSS 7
Ariane 44L
Status
Success
Date
16 APR 2002
23:02
Mission Overview
Ariane mission V150 placed Lockheed Martin A2100-class satellite NSS 7 satellite into orbit. The satellite was owned by New Skies, an Intelsat spinoff, and carried a C/Ku band telecoms payload.
Rocket
Ariane 44L
Mission Type
Communications
Orbit
Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
Stages
2
Livestream
Not availableRocket Details
The Ariane 4 was an expendable space launch system, developed by the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, for the European Space Agency (ESA). It was manufactured by ArianeGroup and marketed by Arianespace. Since its first flight on 15 June 1988 until the final flight on 15 February 2003, it attained 113 successful launches out of 116 total launches.
Height
58.7 m
Diameter
3.8 m
Launch Mass
484 T
Thrust
5,395 kN
