MaqSat-H, MaqSat-B & YES

Launch Partial Failure

Liftoff Time (GMT)

13:43:00

Thursday October 30, 1997

Mission Details

Launch Notes

Flight V101.

MaqSat-B

Wiki

MaqSat B (Maquette Satellite - Bas) is a dummy payload. The ARIANE 502 payload consists of three components: The lower Instrumented Platform (MaqSat B), the upper Instrumented Payload (MaqSat H), and TEAMSAT (Technology education Experiment Added To MAQSat) (various experiments of European universities) which is added to MaqSat H. The platforms are developed, manufactured, and tested by Kayser-Threde, Munich, and correspond to about 90% of the total payload mass. MaqSat B, 2340 kg in mass, simulates a virtual satellite with a very stiff structure. Accelerations and contamination will be measured simultaneously during ascent. These sensors have been provided by CASA, Spain.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

2,340 kilograms

MaqSat-H, TEAMSAT

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MaqSat H (Maquette Satellite - Haute) is a dummy payload. The ARIANE 502 payload consists of three components: The lower Instrumented Platform (MaqSat B), the upper Instrumented Payload (MaqSat H), and TEAMSAT (Technology education Experiment Added To MAQSat) (various experiments of European universities) which is added to MaqSat H. The platforms are developed, manufactured, and tested by Kayser-Threde, Munich, and correspond to about 90% of the total payload mass. MaqSat H, 2290 kg in mass including TEAMSAT, 5 m in height, will use 34 sensors to measure acceleration, vibration, shock, and acoustic noise at different locations. On an instrumentation plate flight data (32 Mbyte) will be recorded within the first four minutes after ignition. Immediately afterward, the data will be transmitted down to Kourou within the following 4 minutes. The MAQSATH structure itself, including a simulating solar panel, will fulfill various frequency and stiffness requirements and has the dimensions of a typical large communications satellite. The evaluation of the flight data will result in an understanding and validity of the environmental requirements for future satellites launched on Ariane-5G.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

2,290 kilograms

YES

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Delta-Utec is the initiator of the YES (Young Engineer's Satellite), a satellite full of experimental technology for space applications, built at record low cost in an extremely short time by young engineers and students. It was proposed in October 1996 at the IAF in Beijing and then supported in writing by e.g. Arthur C. Clarke. 1 Year later YES had already been launched on the Ariane-5G (L-502) qualification flight as a part of the ESA/ESTEC scientific payload TEAMSAT. In an extremely short time frame over 40 young engineers and students from 10 European countries built a satellite with the help of experienced ESA employees. YES featured a number of student-built experiments: Among others a GPS receiver and a 70 km tether experiment. Unfortunately, the tether experiment had to be deactivated before launch, due to analysis by space debris experts of the risks generated by the tether to other spacecraft during its estimated lifetime in geo-transfer orbit.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

1 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Ariane 5 G

Active 1996 to 2003

European Space Agency logo

Agency

ESA

Rocket

Diameter: 5.4m

Height: 52m

Payload to Orbit

GTO: 6,900 kg

Liftoff Thrust

11,400 Kilonewtons

Stages

2

Strap-ons

2

Launch Site

ELA-3

Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana, France

Fastest Turnaround

24 days 3 hours

Stats

Ariane 5


2nd

Mission

1st

Mission of 1997

European Space Agency


11th

Mission

1st

Mission of 1997

1997


68th

Orbital launch attempt