Hot Bird 10, NSS-9 & Spirale-A & B

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

22:09:00

Thursday February 12, 2009

Mission Details

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Launch Notes

Its launch has been featured in National Geographic Channel's programme World's Toughest Fixes. Flight V187.

Spirale-A & Spirale-B

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Spirale is a French government programme to develop an early warning system that will use infrared satellite imagery to detect the flights of ballistic missiles during their boost phase, just after launch. SPIRALE is an acronym that stands for "Système Préparatoire Infra-Rouge pour l’ALErte", literally "infrared preparatory system for alert". The demonstrator system includes two 120 kilograms (260 lb) microsatellites and an alert and monitoring ground segment.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

2 Payloads

240 kilograms

Eutelsat 33E

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Eutelsat 33E, previously known as Hot Bird 10, Atlantic Bird 4A, Eutelsat 3B, and Nilesat 104, Hot Bird 13D is a French communications satellite. Operated by Eutelsat, it provides direct-to-home broadcasting services from geostationary orbit as part of Eutelsat's Hot Bird constellation at a longitude of 13 degrees east.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

4,892 kilograms

NSS-9

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NSS-9 is a communications satellite owned by SES WORLD SKIES. It is an all-C-band satellite intended as a replacement for NSS-5 and has three beams with 44 active C-band transponders.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

2,230 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Ariane 5 ECA

Active 2002 to 2023

European Space Agency logo

Manufacturer

ESA

Price

$200.00 million

Rocket

Diameter: 5.4m

Height: 53m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 21,000 kg

GTO: 10,500 kg

Liftoff Thrust

15,120 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 5.4m

Height: 17m

Stages

2

Strap-ons

2

Launch Site

ELA-3

Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana, France

Fastest Turnaround

24 days 3 hours

Stats

Ariane 5


43rd

Mission

1st

Mission of 2009

European Space Agency


175th

Mission

1st

Mission of 2009

2009


8th

Orbital launch attempt