
Ariane 5 ECA
Ariane 5 is a heavy-lift launch vehicle, part of the Ariane rocket family.
- Height
- 57.7 m
- Diameter
- 5.4 m
- Stages
- 2
- Recorded launches
- 73
- First flight
- 2002-12-11
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This page records Ariane 5 ECA | Star One D1 & JCSAT-15 and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Status reported by the mission data provider.
Both are communications satellites. Equipped with C-, Ku-, and Ka-band payloads, Star One D1 will be used for telecommunications, television broadcast, broadband, Internet access, and other services in Brazil and in the Latin American region. JCSAT-15 will operate in Ku-band and is designed with the flexibility to be used for services such as video distribution in Japan, and data transfer communications, maritime and aviation applications in the Indian Ocean Region.
Published configuration and flight history.

Ariane 5 is a heavy-lift launch vehicle, part of the Ariane rocket family.
This is a mission record, not an upcoming calendar appointment.
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Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
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