Flight VA257, Ariane 5 Summary, Arianespace
On Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 06:50 pm local time, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from the Guiana Space Center, Europes Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (South America), successfully orbiting two geostationary telecommunication satellites, MEASAT3d and GSAT24. With this Ariane 5 mission, Arianespace is honored to support the ambitions of two key actors in the AsiaPacific region: MEASAT, the leading Malaysian satellite operator and NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a Government of India company within the Department of Space (DOS) acting in concert with the Indian Space Agency ISRO. With the orbiting of both MEASAT3d, the fourth satellite that weve launched for the benefit of Malaysia, and GSAT24, the 25th Indian satellite weve delivered for them, we are affirming our long term partnership with these two great actors, declared Stéphane Israël, CEO of Arianespace. MEASAT3d, to be colocated with MEASAT3a and MEASAT3b in the orbital slot, is a multimission telecommun
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