Ariane 5 ECA | Al Yah 3 & SES-14
Ariane Launch Area 3
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
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Al Yah 3 & SES-14
Al Yah 3 is a geostationary communications satellite built by Orbital ATK for Yahsat. It weighs 3790 kg, carries 53 Ka-band user beams and 4 gateway beams, and is intended for 15 years of operation in orbit. Al Yah 3 will provide telecommunication services to Africa and Brazil. SES-14 is also a communications satellite to be placed in geostationary orbit, replacing NSS-806 satellite. SES-14 coverage includes the Americas and the North Atlantic Region. Spacecraft also carries a hosted payload for NASA, Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission, which will be imaging Earth's thermosphere and ionospehere for two years.
Ariane 5 ECA
Height 57.70 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 10500 kg
Liftoff Thrust 11400 kN
Diameter 5.40 Meters
Mass To LEO 0 kg
Liftoff Mass 780 Tonnes
Launch Success 71
Consecutive Success 8
Maiden Flight 2002-12-11
Launch Failures 2
