Ariane 5 Rocket Launches Yahsat 1A, Intelsat New Dawn

摘要

A European Ariane 5 ECA rocket on April 22 successfully placed telecommunications satellites for the United Arab Emirates and an Intelsat partnership in Africa into geostationary transfer orbit. Both satellites were reported healthy in orbit by their manufacturers.It was the second of six Ariane 5 launches planned for 2011 by the Arianespace launch services consor-tium, which also has scheduled three commercial launches of Rus-sia's medium-lift Soyuz rocket from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this year. These flights are to carry a total of 18 Globalstar mobile communications satellites into low Earth orbit.