Flight VA261 | Heinrich-Hertz-Satellit & SYRACUSE 4B | Ariane 5 | Arianespace

stop [Music] [Music] [Music] welcome to the Guyana Space Center and the launch of Heinrich Hertz satellite and Syracuse 4B on the last ever rm5 rocket [Music] our passengers are here on the pad inside the top of the rocket ready to begin the ride into space teams in launch control about one kilometer from the pad are performing the less crucial operations before launch [Music] over the next hour we'll be bringing you live coverage from here the Jupiter Mission Control Center [Music] and we will take you on a VIP tour of the new Iron 6 LaunchPad I'm Rafael Chevrolet I'm Katie has for flight va-261 and the start of our satellites Journey on the road to space [Music] foreign operations running smoothly here at launch pad number three where today we are turning a page in space history the last of the Aryan 5 Rockets is waiting to make her final journey into space the passing the bat on to Ariane six and our passengers up there sitting comfortably inside the cargo bay inside the fairing waiting to start their ride that Jew in about 27 minutes time you can see the countdown there on the top right hand side of your screen I'm in the mission control center behind me in what we call the Fishbowl the operational teams all focusing very hard at this point before the launch this is very much the nerve center of operations here at the Spaceport right now all systems are green that's a good sign it means that we are go for launch so we can find out a little bit more now about our mission and just the man to tell us all about it is Stefan Israel who is the CEO of Aryan space thank you very much indeed Stefan coming out of the Fishbowl to talk to us um so first of all we did have we were going to be meeting here on the 16th of June but that launch was postponed what's been happening since then yes first we have had to replace three pyrotechnical transmission lines it has been done properly then two days ago we have had a a red with the weather so we have decided to postpone the launch to tonight and we're good to go we are very good to go you know to go you need to have the launcher already the satellite ready the ranch when ready and all is ready so if everything goes as planned we will lift off at 7 pm and we will have a launch window of one hour and 35 minutes so that's a really nice comfortable launch ing two very important passengers for these last iron fives first a German passenger Heinrich Earth satellite which has been manufactured by ohb system for the German space agency DLR and the second passenger shark is Furby for the French mod which has been manufactured by Airbus defense and space with teles Lydia space and of course today today Harry N5 the teams have been working on this fantastic rocket for many many years now I can't imagine how people are feeling people tonight and all the team are moved because it is as you have said the last Iron 5 and focused because what we need now is to make the final preparations for the final in5 launch so moved and focused yeah absolutely so this event thank you so much for for that so you can head back now to take up your position in in the Fishbowl and good luck for the operations thank you Stephen [Applause] so after 27 years the mighty Aryan 5 is hanging up her boots and retiring to hand over to her younger sister Ariane six very exciting times ahead many of us though have grown up with our N5 I certainly have my first ever launch broadcast was the first operational Aryan 5 when she delivered a fantastic telescope into space called xmm Newton which is still delivering really important technology uh information and data back to us now and that launch was in 1999. someone else who's grown up with her is our technical expert today Raphael Chevrolet Raphael thank you very much for being with us it's really lovely to have you here Raphael's going to be with us now for the rest of the show Raphael what does she mean to you well you know I was 10 when the first rn5 lifted off so for me she really is an icon she became part of our Collective culture as a child he really found that she was the way of reaching the Stars you know yeah and she has delivered some really incredible spacecraft over the years spacecraft which I think we can safely say have changed lives oh yeah and I really want to pay tribute to all the remarkable brains and the incredible people who actually made those missions possible and who are still inspiring me on a very personal level thanks to them we've been able to send any type of satellites into any kind of orbit satellites to help us understand the planet the climate change satellites to help us better communicate with each other to understand our universe where we are where we come from to help the Armed Force and also cargo ships to supply the astronauts on the International Space Station so this is no exaggeration exaggeration saying that rn5 actually changed our lives yes indeed and today she is carrying two very very important passengers into space how are they going to get there with rn5 standing right now on the launch pad so today we are launching towards the east as it's usually the case for reaching the geostationary orbits so 2 minutes and 21 seconds after liftoff the two lateral boosters have provided 90 of the thrust so they will be the jettisoned shortly after that we will separate the fairing as we have crossed the limits of the atmosphere so at that time the satellites can safely face The Emptiness of space once we have reached an intermediate orbit the main stage will be cut off and separated this will be 8 minutes and 40 seconds after liftoff then the upper seat will take over and power for 16 minutes in order to reach the intermediate orbit where the satellites will be released by the way the little towers that we see here on the motion picture they represent a chain of telemetry stations receiving data from the rm5 all along the flight path so H2 sets will be separated first after some orientation Maneuvers before we safely separate the Dual launch structure it's called the seal that as the black box that we see here under which the lower passenger Syracuse for me is hidden circus hobby will be separated 33 minutes after flight and then exactly like a really race we will pass the Baton to the customers who will acquire their satellites and perform all the orientation Maneuvers in order to get them into their final geosexual orbit 36 000 kilometers from here that's a long way up and as you say Heinrich Hertz is in the upper birth up there at the top the first satellite to be released ohb led the industrial teams who built it for the German space agency DLR and it's named after the brilliant German physicist Heinrich Hertz you've heard of hurts in waves you've heard of radio waves well he helped us to discover them and it is a very exciting and experimental Mission let's find out more about it now [Music] thank you onboard Aryan 5 is Germany's new enrich Earth satellite communication satellite H2 sat the heinriched Earth's Mission aims to explore and Test new Communications Technologies in space at a technical and scientific level to determine how Broadband Communications can result in high data rates for mobile end users [Music] satellite it has a total mass of about 3450 kilograms and is roughly the size of a small van this is now the first communication satellite in Germany for about 30 years and our goal is to demonstrate the newly developed Technologies for communication satellites in orbit we want to provide proof that these Technologies are qualified for orbit using our scientific technical payload and the military payload to provide communication links for the national Army this Mission will offer universities research institutes and Industry a platform for conducting numerous scientific and Technical experiments H2 sat is developed by ohb system on behalf of the space agency of the German Aerospace Center DLR and the propulsion system is supplied by Ariane group with the enrich Earth's mission ohb system the prime partner along with 41 other partners from the German space industry and research industry demonstrate the ability to realize complex and secure telecommunication systems this Mission will make an important contribution to Germany's Information Society and in the lower birth underneath Heinrich hertz's Syracuse 4B it's a military satellite for the French armed forces and it was built by Europe's aerospi Space Giants tell us a linear space and Airbus it's very powerful it's very resilient and it can resist even the most extreme jamming and that's exactly what the military need for their operations let's take a closer look at Syracuse 4B thank you the day Aryan 5 is launching Syracuse 4B a French military telecommunications satellite that is part of the cyracuse 4 program at the Forefront of Technology the Syracuse full constellation is being developed by the directorate general of armaments in collaboration with the national Center for space studies in the armed forces and built by Airbus Intellis elenia space Generations Syracuse 4B led by Airbus is the second satellite of the system it aligns with the ministry of defenses Space strategy meeting the needs of the Armed Forces to communicate over long distances and during operations space foreign Cruise 4B satellite offers improved communication capabilities flexibility and resistance to jamming this will enable French Armed Forces to stay connected and communicate even when in combat zones first and foremost Syracuse 4B highlights French expertise is this latest addition to the Syracuse 4 program will play a crucial role in National Defense by enabling the French Armed Forces to coordinate their operations and share Vital Information and teams have been working here at the Spaceport now for the last couple of months preparing these two satellites for their Journey today and of course the Ariane 5 Launcher we call this preparation progress but process the launch campaign yes but let me let me remind you that the launcher and satellites team have been working together for years in order to prepare these missions but you're right the launch campaign has started early May of this year and so the customers have perform some standard activities on their satellites they check that it's working properly they fueled the satellites and then the satellites got transferred to the final Assembly Building where they met the launcher Aryan 5 for the very first time and they got integrated on top of the launcher in this building and then of course thing was the transfer the whole thing to its pad that took place two days ago and we actually filmed it didn't we we did a live show because it's a very special event the last ever transfer it's a very special operation that is very specific to Aryan 5. so it's a very slowly process the whole launcher and the table it weighs 2 000 tons it's stored by a small truck and it's traveling three kilometers or so in 40 minutes so very careful process on the vertical position and so right now Iron 5 is standing on the launch pad ready for the launch and on Launchpad number three we have a number of different launch pads here though because the Guyana Space Center is a big place we have lots of different facilities it covers about 700 square kilometers I think it's about three times bigger than the capital city cayenne and the whole thing is known as the range the job of administering it and managing it falls to the French space agency over to their president good evening today we'll go down as a day to remember in France and Europe Space Program in a few minutes Iron 5 will be lifting off for the last time from CSG to European Space Center I would like to dwell on this special and hurt steering moment to recall some of the Fantastic Feats of this venerable launcher the flagship of Europe space industry between 1996 and today's Final flight iron5 has clocked up 170 launches with its unique lift capacity and orbital injection Precision it has carried a host of payloads into space serving telecommunications Earth observation and space exploration missions let me reflect on some of these emblematic Mission let me start with Rosetta which embarked a one-way trip to Comet churi top rn5 on March 2004 going into orbit around its Target 10 years later and odise followed all over the world Galileo is the best worldwide known European positioning series more recently the web Telescope launched on December 21 that is sending back stunning pictures of our universe today we are supposed to launch Syracuse 4B towards the destination which is much closer to home but nevertheless equally vital for our security clear's role in developing this satellite both on technology development and project coordination has been instrumental as a space architect of Syracuse 4 program providing its expertise to the defense procurement agency DGA and to the armed host this evening Iron 5 is therefore bowing out with a mission crucial to sustaining our military capabilities I wish you a great Lounge another fine chapter to add to the history of Europe and Friends space program we can be proud of what we have done and can be proud of this illustrous lady Go Iron 5 go [Music] thank you coming up to 11 minutes to launch The Final Countdown actually started 11 hours ago and there's a whole succession of operations that happens during that time coming up now to an important moment which is the final weather check of course all lights on the weather here in the European Spaceport yesterday we did have a delay delayed launch we can control most things but of course the weather's down to Mother Nature isn't it yes exactly but what we typically check is um the wind at high altitude the wind around the launch pad and the risk of lightning that could damage the electronics during the launch rain is not so much of a program and that's a good thing because it's been raining quite a lot in the past days um we are in the tropical weather here in French Guyana and we are actually in between the rainy and the dry season yes or launching Rockets from isn't it oh yes it's an ideal location for launching satellites into space in front of Guyana there is no big tropical storm no hurricane no earthquake and more importantly we are located five degree north of the equator which give us a maximum slingshot effect given by the rotation of the Earth French Grenada has also an amazing wildlife and sometimes we see some animals wandering around the preparation buildings but let's say that in more than 40 Years of activity nature and Technology have learned to live in harmony here in French Guyana oh that's a very very true we see some beautiful animals here I actually saw recently a sloth crawling very slowly across the main road my heart was slightly in my mouth for it but it was absolutely fine so we have two control rooms this is the mission control center primarily concerned with the entire Mission and of course the range operations manager here in the mission control center calls out all the major events to the base but we have another control center it's launch control and that's much closer to the pad in what we call the bunker what are they doing over there Raphael so they are in charge of all the operations to do with the launcher and the pad so they woke up quite early this morning in order to start The Final Countdown this was at about 7 00 am and so they are leading and monitoring the operations leading us to the launch for example you have the feeling of the tanks with liquid oxygen and hydrogen you have the cooling of the Vulcan engine and the sphere pressurization of the main and the upper stage that's just to name a few of course right now they're all really focusing very hard because we're getting closer to Launch eight minutes and 11 seconds and counting and of course here in the mission control center all eyes at this stage before a launch on the status panels those were the green boards that we saw earlier and they're giving us all kinds of information very important information obviously green is go and red is stop but what are they actually telling us Raphael so we are monitoring several main parameters for example the weather which is green right now and the launch base the rocket and of course the two satellites inside the fairing right now all this system they send their status to this panel and they all need to remain Green in order for the launch to go ahead and like Stefan says a little bit earlier we have a quite comfortable launch window tonight more than one hour so if for any reason the clock happened to stop we have some time in order to understand what's happening to solve the issue and to start the clock again coming up to the beginning of the synchronized sequence foreign currency has begun Raymond Boyce the range operations manager or DDO in French has announced it and Aaron 5 Standing Tall for a sunset liftoff what's happening in the synchronized sequence so there is a complex set of operations leading us to the launch and giving more and more autonomy to the rocket so just to name a few we have the topping up and the pressurization of the tanks of the main stage and of the upper stage at the onboard computer will receive the exact time for liftoff it's located right here and that's the brain of the rocket if you want I'm at one minute to launch the power supply will switch from the ground to the rocket the launch we will see it only when the two lateral boosters ignites believe me this is going to be spectacular well it will be because Aryan 5 is always very very spectacular some of the most important missions started their life on board her she's had a fantastic career let's have a little look at some of her highlights [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you the legend indeed and what a beauty it is me goosebumps it does Goosebumps it's very moving but every exit is an entrance and we're looking forward to the new Ariane six so we have exciting times ahead and Raphael and I have come up to our Sky Box now we're gonna commentate from here now for the rest of the program two minutes and 16 seconds to Launch and I guess it would be a good time now to run through some of the things people should be looking out for yeah so only six seconds before liftoff we will see the cryogenic arms retract that's very last minute because the property provides to the upper stages extremely coded constantly evaporating in this warm tropical climate the Wilkin engine will ignite first we will need to check its working properly before we switch on the boosters this will happen seven seconds later so we won't see the launcher moving during these seven seconds this is just a little warm up before the very last Aryan 5 rocket takes off to the sky can you imagine KD that next time the satellites will see the outer World it will be in the emptiness of space enjoy the show thank you my minute enough said Africa [Applause] collage nominal Christian nominal Syracuse 4B and Heinrich Hertz satellite blazing a trail on board the last ever Ariane 5 across the equatorial skies and we can hear the rumble okay as she flies over it's it's very impressive and we are you know 11 kilometers from the pattern the delay of the vibration is a bit amazing we can just kind of get tired of it and we have a very good view of the launcher version he's telling us that the trajectory is nominal everything is going according to plan one minute and 56 seconds into the launch fantastic view of Ariane 5. well we have a very good view I'm I'm sure we will see the booster separation so the proportion is working perfectly nominally as we say in the space Jacob and here we will see the booster separation we have confirmation from the range operations manager okay that's absolutely amazing there's two boosters on the right and the left being jettisoned the white dot in the middle the Vulcan engine so they are providing 90 percent of the overall thrust and so they have been jettisoned there are 240 tons each the launcher on the ground was 771 tons and we don't need them anymore everybody is completely nominal so next step is the separation of the fairing that's coming up in about 10 seconds you can see on the top of the screen our trajectory on the left hand side is the planned route for the vehicle and separation there of the fairing is what it looks like so you have confirmation there of so we don't need it anymore nominal exactly so we were 117 kilometers above the ground when we separated this the fairing so we crossed the limits of the atmosphere we are now in space where the remaining gas is so thin that the friction it generates on the satellite is very negligible just to mention also that we switch from rear camera to 3D images now because that's how we can follow the steps of the mission the fairing was also used to protect the satellites from the noise generated at launch we obviously need to jettison it correctly to follow the logic of shedding as much weight as fast as possible because the lighter the crafted faster it goes in order to release H2 set and Syracuse 4B in less than half an hour from now and that's the name of the game of course to lose Mass so that we can do a nominal climb higher into space and the captain has switched off the seat belt size if you look at our altitude at the top of the screen 168 kilometers and climbing so we have crossed what some people think of as the border with space the Carmen line which was at 100 kilometers above our planet and yes we can see Heinrich Hertz satellite for the first time you said that they were gonna see space the next time they saw the outside world well now Heinrich hertz can see space that's the that's the case for the upper passengers the lower passenger Syracuse 4B needs to wait a minute a little longer in order to meet space for the first time what we see is the black structure this is the Dual launch structure called silda so it's used to accommodate the two satellites under a single fairing it's a very clever piece of Kit because it allows you to attach one satellite at the front and then in the lower birth he's just told us that we have about three minutes roughly right left on the on the main stage on the main stage so thanks to the Vulcan engine that's the engine of the main stage we are gaining lots of speed right now so in less than two and a half minutes we will go from four to seven kilometers per second which is very fast obviously and this is a huge structure it's a 30 meters high filled with approximately 160 tons of cryogenic properties stored in two different compartments one for liquid oxygen one for liquid hydrogen you definitely don't want to touch it because it's extremely cold it's 100 degrees below zero incredible when you think that hot temperatures so you've got the very cold tank in the Middle with the very hot boosters on the side when they are burning and of course that's just such remarkable feat of human engineering isn't it side by side so everything is going perfectly right now and he's telling us that we have now picked up the signal at the ground station in Natal which is on the northeastern Brazil and we're tracking the launcher using Telemetry yeah so the launcher sends signals back to Earth all along the flight which are recorded by a network or Telemetry stations so that the teams can make sure that the mission is performing nominally again that's a word that we will hear very often during this flight it's like a really race with one Telemetry station passing the Baton to the next one by the way the trajectory today is a little bit different than usual we will release the telecommunication satellites on an orbit with an inclination of three degrees with respect to the equator instead of six degrees as it's usually the case for this kind of missions so it will be easier for the satellites to reach their final geostationary orbit we were able to do so because we had some remaining performance on the rnn5 and when we have some margin we just give it to the customers and so the first station to pick up the signal was galio here in Peru now it's natal and then we will have other stations all along the front path coming up on the next sequence of events foreign a sequence of three very important and very delicate events there yes so the extension of the main stage engine the successful separation of the main stage from the rest of the launcher and just now the ignition of the upper stage it's super important step because you know there are three engines on the rocket four engines sorry three are ignited on the ground and this is the only one which is ignited in space at 200 and almost 40 kilometers of altitude so it's a very delicate operation and it's imperative that we succeed in order to continue the mission so we were being tracked still by the galio tracking station in the CSG we've really begun the upper stage phase now of the flight very much the next phase of the journey the upper stage has taken the wheel its engine Burns about 16 minutes and it's a really clever piece of kid it's got a number of jobs it's got one particularly very important job of course to transport the satellites to their transfer orbit where they're going to be released um we need to do this obviously in a very precise trajectory in a very precise way could use this everything is going smoothly right now let's have a look now at Space Team Europe [Music] donation is foreign foreign [Music] defeat and good for her let's see if we can go over now to Tony tolka Nielsen Tony is the director of space transportation systems at the European Space Agency Tony thank you for joining us from the Fishbowl Space Team Europe it was very inspiring to see those people talking what does it mean to you I saw uh is based in Europe for the first time during the games we speak to the scope launch in December 21 and I find it a great idea space is booming right now there's an acceleration of the use of space and above all and generation of the commercialization unfortunately this is going much faster outside Europe in the US and China and also India is is catching up very fast the space economy is forcing to be booming in the coming decades and in order not to lose out on this like we did in the.com economy 20 years ago we must get our act together and accelerate the use of space in Europe all the various players from the users to the Space Industries and the funding authorities We Stand much stronger with a common vision and common goals Tony thank you very much indeed I appreciate you talking to the Fishbowl Tony tolki Nissan thank you very much indeed so Ariane 6 very much the new kid on the Block the product of the European space expertise here in Europe Rafael and I were lucky enough to visit her pad [Music] launch Zone consists of a range of facilities and connections once the rocket is integrated with its pad it becomes one whole system this ensembled buildings is the launch pad itself and from one side to the other it's 200 meters wide that's about the size of two football fields and this is the mobile gum tree it is as tall as the Statue of Liberty and slightly heavier than the Eiffel Tower rm6 is assembled horizontally then transferred to the pad where it is raised vertically thanks to the Gumtree the pairing with the satellites inside is hoisted and connected to the top [Music] oh the mobile Gantry protects the launcher during preparations on the pad and it allows the teams to work on the rocket until shortly before liftoff there are 22 levels with platforms giving the teams access to all the parts of the iron 6 launcher and I am on top of the rocket and this is the pairing this is where inside the satellites will be sitting comfortably waiting for long and I'm in the bottom down here in the bowels of the building and these big pipes run all the way 300 meters from the outside to the rocket delivering cryogenic fuel it is complex engineering they must be careful to have extremely cold temperature in order to maintain the oxygen in the hydrogen as liquids [Applause] shortly before launch the Gantry rolls back along rails revealing Ariane 6. the mechanical electrical and fluid lines which joined the rocket to its pad disconnect when the launcher lifts off [Applause] this is a giant exhaust pipe and during the launch all the firework moves will be coming out of there and for iron since we have added the very special deflector it's used to divide the flames in two parts and inside here is going to be 3000 degrees during the launch so you better not be on this pad during liftoff [Music] as the rocket lifts off water deluges the patch to reduce vibrations on our precious passengers inside [Music] we are six meters underneath the pad with a rocket sitting right on top of it and the water flunked on the water tower through these and massive height and then up onto the cable and the water is drawn from a mitigated Lake and once it's used it's carefully treated in order to protect the wide variety of animals and plants and it really is smart into nature [Music] once it's done its job the launch pad is reset for the next mission ready to continue the outstanding story of Ariane very impressive to see how rn5 rn6 is becoming reality and you look at a couple days after our visit the mobile country was actually retracted for a rehearsal representative of a real launch sequence the good news is it went very well and Next Step will be a hot firing test of the lower stage engine Vulcan a very tight security of course by the French Armed Forces who are based here at the Ghana Space Center and are celebrating their 50th year [Music] every time a rocket is launched from the Guyana Space Center over 300 military men are mobilized their mission to protect the Space Center its surroundings and those present the Spaceport spread out over 660 square kilometers hosts important missions for European space activities and National Defense all of which are extremely sensitive and high-risk operations before each launch around 100 legionnaires and artillery troops are deployed on roads tracks and also within Savannah and Forest zones on quad bikes off-road and track vehicles and even in kayaks their surveillance also extends to the maritime Zone where two vessels from the French navy Patrol this restricted area a confidence-class patrol vessel and a coastal Patrol vessel from the maritime John darmory as for its airspace this is constantly monitored by two phonak helicopters with snipers on board a puma helicopter is also ready to take off at any moment carrying on boards soldiers and John Downs prepare to intervene in case of Interest Ed on the ground there are surface-to-air missiles operated by artillery troops capable of destroying any threatening aircraft to complement the security and protection system the kness the national Center for space studies calls upon the Paris fire brigade and the Don darmory who are permanently present on site protecting Europe's Spaceport is the armed forces and French guiana's main mission but they also fight against illegal gold mining and illicit fishing this year the third foreign Infantry Regiment one of the armed forces units in French Guiana marks its 50th Anniversary 50 years of expertise and protection the service of European space activities and international influence foreign at eight kilometers just over eight kilometers per second our distance six thousand nearly seven thousand kilometers from the pad and an altitude of 270 kilometers high we're really starting to climb now into space and there are people all over Europe working in space Transportation they're represented by an organization called the community cities thank you less than an hour from Paris lies the historical birthplace of European rocket Vernon This Charming little town on the outskirts of Normandy with just over 24 000 inhabitants is known not only for its quality of life or its Old Mill but also for 60 years of innovation and space exploration this year the city of Vernon with its sights set more than ever on Space has been chosen to preside of the community of Aryan cities CVA established in 1998 the CVA aims to strengthen cooperation amongst its various space Partners inform citizens about space activities in Europe and contribute to the training of future Professionals in the space field foreign European space exploration has been part of this City's DNA for half a century it is in the Aaron group Factory in Vernon that the new engines of Aryan 6 are currently being designed as are all the engines in previous Aryan launches the fabrication is a summer University for Aryan cities an event dedicated to Aryan 5's last flight and even a space-themed fireworks display throughout the year the city of Vernon is organizing a rich program of events inspired by the colors of the community of Ariane cities I love how he listed the name of all the engines beginning with the V and during that film we had confirmation there that we entered the sphere of the tracking station in malindi on the east coast of Africa so they've now taken over monitoring events from libreville 24 minutes and 15 seconds into the flight Rafael we're getting closer now to switching off our engine yes in order to prepare the separations of our first satellite H2 sets so it's important to do it on time in a very precise way as it will really drive the satellites lifetime in space Iron 5 is famous for its injection Precision we've seen it for the launch of gems web Space Telescope a year and a half ago and again for juice spacecraft in April Iron 5 was so precise that it considerably increased the life expenses expectancy of these space probes in space thank you best thanks yandere Superior technique so did you confirm that it got successfully cut off that upper stage enrich Earth's satellites and he's announced the beginning of the orientation Maneuvers for Heinrich Hertz satellite so really getting now into the next phase of the journey preparing to separate our two satellites from the Mothership right now without the engine we are coasting in the coast phase which we often call the ballistic phase which means I believe that we are traveling without power and we're on trajectory yep we are really starting to climb into into space in the next five minutes we will almost triple the altitude going from well six seven hundred kilometers to more than thirteen hundred 26 kilometers where the heinridge health satellite will be released and we have a slightly different trajectory today don't we yes like I said we are targeting a slightly lower inclination as usual and that's a good thing because the satellites will use less fuel in order to rejoin the geostationary orbit which is around the equatorial plane and the people monitoring all of these operations are actually in a Telemetry Center on a hillside just behind the mission control center we call it here the CVI which is the sort of French acronym for Real Time visual control and they're getting all the information there yeah so the team here are receiving the data from the tracking stations so they check the status of the launcher in real time especially regarding the proportion the guidance and the trajectory most of the data is not analyzed on in real time it's analyzed offline by dedicated teams in the days and weeks following the launch so that's why we also constantly improve our knowledge of the launcher let me remind you that the success rate of rn5 is 98 yes a very good success rate going through a very specific set of Maneuvers here orientation Maneuvers once we release our satellites they've got a long journey ahead they've got to get to their final orbital slot that's 36 000 kilometers above the Earth we call that geostationary orbit and in order for them to be able to do that we have to set them off on their Journey properly and to their exact position and orientation in space absolutely actually its satellite has its own set of requirements for being released into space in very specific conditions for example for an enrich heads satellites we need to release the spacecraft such that it is slightly rotating on itself at a speed of 2 degrees per second you know like a barbecue spit we can see on the animation that the airport is telling us that the ballistic phase exactly so their procedure is slightly spinning and the satellites so um it's also performing orientation Maneuvers in order to be directed at 90 degrees with respect to the sun this is also a specific requirement you should be done in order to distribute the heat evenly over all parts of the satellite rn5 has a fantastic track record yeah of course well in 27 years of operation 239 satellites into orbit it constantly improves its performance can I start a little quiz with you oh dear are in five I that was for the Mercury Mission baby Colombo on October 2018 the rocket reached almost 11 kilometers per seconds fantastic 11 kilometers per second that's a phenomenal speed coming up now on the first Main Event H2 sat separation that's what it looks like up there and we have separation of Heinrich Hertz satellite our first satellite has starting its new life in space it needs to climb to 36 000 kilometers and obviously a whole load of things have to happen in the meantime but we still have our second passenger inside the cylinder can't see it right now can we yeah very good news of course but the mission is definitely not over so the teams are extremely focused because we have another passengers to deliver into space next step is the separation of the black structure the Dual long structure silda which will reveal the lower passenger Syracuse 4B so the satellite will meet space for the first time in a couple of minutes it's also it needs to be released also in a very specific way so in this case the upper stage will stop spinning because CRX 4B needs to be separated in stabilized way and also the upper stage will rotate in order to um to separate the satellite in the direction of the sun this time with the thrusters directed directly pointed at our star coming up now on the next part the important phase of removing the cylinder so that we can reveal Syracuse for be inside that clever piece of Kip the attachment kit which allows us to attach the satellite in the upper position and protect the satellite in the lower position it should happen in any seconds moving very carefully and very very slowly away foreign been removed another very good news and moving away in a again a very carefully planned set of Maneuvers and he's announced for Syracuse 4B so you actually see the upper stage rotating in order to separate the satellite in a very specific Direction with respect to the sun I can also mention that the two satellites are separated with a safety distance in order to make sure that they will not collide with each other because you know they are following the same trajectory towards the geostationary orbits and in this case it's dozens of kilometers that separate the two satellites thanks to the orientation Maneuvers that are being performed right now by the upper stage sending back the data here to the CVI teams who then uh provide that to the range operations manager REM Boyce to announce this is the scheduled time for separation and we have separation of Syracuse 4B that's great news Ariane 5 has delivered her second passenger bang on target over the Indian Ocean congratulations to all the Syracuse 4B teams and to the H2 sat teams best wishes to all the teams now on the ground in the two control rooms taking over your new satellites and going through the early phases of the operations happy faces all around here congratulations to all the teams of course we'll see a funny passenger here in the control room with the requisite sunglasses what emotions it's it's a very emotional time because rn5 has of course performed flawlessly and beautifully and the teams now very very happy of course the work is done for some but for others it's just beginning yes because their satellites needs to rejoin their final oppression orbit but you know people often ask me why a launch can generate such strong emotions but honestly when you see on the launch pad this huge product of human genius sitting there on the ground and thinking that in 13 minutes 30 minutes it's reaching the outer space well I mean when we see this we understand and I hope yeah I mean we we feel it right it's very hard to describe with words but and you can see also all the teams that didn't known each other for for years because they've been working together for years it's very special it's a family it's a family the space family the level of expertise is phenomenal and here very happy faces we're looking at some extremely happy faces for the last ever Ariane 5 launch waiting now for Stefan Israel to come back to the floor so we see the teams from the satellites from Iron space it's a very special like I said a customer service provider relationship it's absolutely unique and like you said yeah this is the space communities and family and when you enter it you stay there for a long time and he's just announced announced signal from headlight so Heinrich Hertz I believe I'm writing saying has now called home so the team there is like another team acquiring the satellites and Performing all the Maneuvers in order to get it into the right orbit the right position so yes and the journey is definitely just the beginning because we released the satellites at one thousand and 300 kilometers of altitude they need to go 3 36 000 kilometers away from here so obviously the big the the journey is only beginning for the satellite and of course they've got a lot of operations to go through it's often known as leops they launch an early operations phase when the teams on the ground take their satellites through all the various different the things that have to happen obviously they've got to put out their solar Wings deploy their panels to get some electricity from the Sun um and a whole set of operations and sometimes takes days for those things to happen so I can also mention that oh we have Stefan I'm really happy to see you there Stefan welcome back right we've come to you inside the Fishbowl this time Stefan congratulations yes it's really a great day a great evening for Germany and friends for France and Germany and we really want to thank and the German space agency Cris 4B and the French amode for their trust tonight I am 5 has made the job and she's really performed flawlessly hasn't she the Workhorse as usual I wonder how you're all feeling now I think what is important is the collective feeling we are we are all here in the Jupiter Control Center and it is really today tonight the success of a team European team the success of iron space iron group the success the success of Isa the success of all our industrial Partners in Europe and you know that Mt Aerospace in Germany is one of its industrial Partners it is a success of Team Europe tonight with this last and final Island indeed in the Performing the combined operations out there here at the pad for Ariane 6 and things are going well yes indeed so Iron 5 is now over and Iron 5 was perfectly finished its work and it's really now a legendary launcher but iron 6 is coming and the team are now working out here in the Vienna Space Center on what we call the combined test of iron 6 we have met the withdrawal of the mobile Gun 3 the 22 of June 13 of iron gopen knees are now working with Isa for the next step of the combined test so we will have a very busy summer tell us about the next launch so the next launch will be with our Vega launcher it will be a vv23 and we are also preparing this next launch so during this summer we have here in the Guyana Space Center operations key operations for in6 and also key operation for Vega Stefan best of luck for all of those operations thank you once again and congratulations so let's go now over to Gregory gavois from Iron space who is on the other side of the glass Gregory you're in front of the Fishbowl with some guests and customers I'm sure everyone must be feeling very very happy Gregory can hear me but I'm not sure that he can I've Got a Feeling maybe Gregory can't actually hear me yes yes thank you thank you very much Katie we are indeed very happy here I'm with the representative of the manufacturers and operators of the satellites launched by iron5 today so starting with the two gentlemen High United satellite uh next to me I'm Mr greif and Mr Schneider so Peter graph you are a director at the German Space Center the DLR this is your first time in Kuru how do you feel now and what can you explain what are the next steps ahead of us for the satellite before being operated by your teams well thank you thank you so it's uh what an excitement uh I'm thrilled actually to to see what happens here how precise the satellites were injected so this is really amazing congratulations for this terrific spectacular launch and thank you thank you very much to all contributing teams that helped to insert that helped to insert our satellite into this transport so the cellulite is doing a pione reading work for us because it it offers a platform for research done by institutes in Germany and the German industry so we are looking forward to operating system within the next few days in the geostationary orbit and I know that our teams on on ground are working hard and are very busy to make that happen in the next day so well thanks again to Ariane 5 this perfect launch this last mission of aria5 is over for us it just started just starting and then thank you very much better talking about European and German industry we have here Alexander Schneider you are the program lead with OHP the company which designed and built Henry shirts athlete also your first time in Peru and the end of a tremendous industrial journey I suppose could you tell us more about what your teams did over the past months to make this program a reality Alexander well first of all thanks to Ariana's bus for this beautiful launch it was really nominal normally nominal and it was really a pleasure and in the last weeks you asked we were here in Kuru after we finished our environmental test campaign and we were working together with Ariana's bus and Zurich whose team had daily meetings it was always very professional and very Hospitality here I enjoyed my time here and thanks to the teams it was really a great pleasure and also I'm very honored to be part of the last Ariane 5 launch is of course it's a French German Mission we see the two satellites and that's something very special to me I'd like to thank the German Ministries and DLR for the Trust In OHP to build this satellite and of course I would like to give a big thanks to the OHP colleagues at home which did over the past years with all their passion and and professionalism this hard work and of course now we have kind of half time and we will go now for 15 years operations of the spacecraft and I can confirm we have acquisition of Cigna great this is a fantastic newsletter to the teams [Applause] there were two satellites on board today on tonight's launch we've talked just here about Heinrich Herz and I'm now inviting on stage three representatives from the team Syracuse the second satellite not average space thanks to iron5 today and we have another confirmations ongoing live so let me start with you General sayagia General you're a director of space programs within the French Armament General directorate the DGA do you um could you please tell us a bit about what Syracuse 4B will bring to the French Armed Forces namely to those who are engaged in operations on the field with pleasure but just before I would like to thank you and thanks all the teams it's my first day here in nakuru for the launch of military satellites and each time someone used the name of a space family and I really feel it and once again thanks to iron guptua in this past it was a wonderful launch even if it is the last one and for the French Armed Forces it was very important to succeed this launch so Syracuse 4B it's a new model for the military's communication satellite it will meet up his little brother psychics 4A which was launched in October 21 and it's just a Next Generation communication satellite which is a very accurate a border coverage for our forces and it is for the free forces of the army the Navy and the Air Force and as it is a Metairie satellite obviously it is protected against more or less everything which can occurred from nuclear event cyber defense or even jamming so it's a wonderful piece of technology French and European technology and he's just beginning his launch his work to Jose orbital because it's using an electrical motor so it will take six months to go there thank you we wish the best to Syracuse to to reach the destination thank you very much you know next to you is Francois the senior vice president telecommunications and navigation systems with the Airbus the prime manufacturer of Syracuse 4B so Francois what makes this satellite a very important program and Mission also to Airbus yes in fact it's a very very important vision for us and I'd like to start by thanking the DGA for giving us their trust because For the First Time our restaurants is going to deliver satellites to the Armed Forces we are not doing that alone we are doing that with what we call the equip de France the French team with many partners starting by uh telestri space but many many others French players like saffron and many others we have also very very pleased to bring into this program by our bus all the technology our industrial know how to make this satellite 20 seconds 4B super resilient robust and super safe know the story is not over you're just starting for another part of the mission the team indeed has received the Telemetry in the Control Center and they will work for the next six months to bring the satellite into orbit so another team that will dedicate their time to to bring the mission up there now let me thank all the people who have worked on the program whoever in France from Airbus and other suppliers or other partners it has been a tremendous work to go to to this Mission now uh spending months weeks days and nights to bring the satellite now into Mission thanking the people here in Kuru as well for marbles who have spent many many weeks a few more than expected by the way to to be uh ready green light for the launch tonight so thanks for them and now singing a big hello to the team in Toulouse as well because we have gathered all the people in the seatedless paths to celebrate this event with all our partners our customers everyone to decide to this event so enjoy the event enjoy the night it's a unique moment for our country a unique moment for others as well thank you thank you very much thank you talking I think we the team circus Toby you know Tim de France myself from some Killers talking about the team let's leave the floor to jean-beautista director of military telecommunications with telesceline space so geometry circus is not only about tonight's satellite right it's a wider program in which telesalenas face along with the others and other industrial Partners play an important role could you tell us a bit more about this role is a communication telecommunication program from the father of French policies that has been designed by by teles to connect all the forces anytime anywhere under the worst conditions we are very proud to to have been part of the Syracuse program for 40 years and we we have lived with with the Syracuse one first program and now we are at the fourth generation of of Syracuse that we are manufacturing with our partners of Airbus and uh and uh I I must say that the the collaboration is very very good with with Airbus uh like Francois said I think we form a very good uh French uh French team french-based team um tonight I would like also like you have both Don thank all the teams I would like first to to thank DGA and the Armed Forces who have launched this program uh in 2016. I would like also to to thank deckness that has supported the program for all those years and I would like also to thank the teams that have worked together both Abbas and tales team because the program was long and difficult and of course I would like to thank Aryan espas for this beautiful launch tonight Albert is very beautiful he's now flying to its final destination and I would like to say that I would like to wish a long lifetime to to Cherokee's 4B thank you very much merci beaucoup thank you also to all the teams so they serve big kiddos here in the room at the near the police they keep the Syracuse and also our nature outside like you you mention it a role with iron space is to open roads into space to allow you our customers to reach their destination this is again the time for tonight so thank you very much um I've been very pleased and we all very pleased and proud to share the passion that prevailed on this final Iron 5 launch a legend that is now passing the Baton to iron six in an iconic space continuum so over to ukt for the end of the show thank you very much again thank you Gregory and yes indeed the adventure certainly continues the new star of the show of course is Ariane six we've seen her on the pad you and I Rafael and Justice She's a Beauty but today we say goodbye to Ariane 5. she's taken her final bow and what a beautiful performance it was I have to tell you that I feel very privileged to have witnessed it yeah me too and it was another Katie to commentate this final launch with you and congratulations to all the teams we are turning a page in space history tonight with rn5 especially for those who grew up with this iconic rocket but I am very excited to open a new chapter with Aryan 6 thinking that there will be a new generation of Rocket scientists of rockets enthusiasts no doubt we will call them the generation rn6 fantastic thank you everybody looking forward to the next launch from Raphael time on road to space thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 86min 32sec (5192 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 05 2023