SES-14/GOLD & Al Yah-3

Launch Partial Failure

Liftoff Time (GMT)

22:20:00

Thursday January 25, 2018

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Read Article

Launch Notes

Due to programming errors in the Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC), the satellites were placed on an off-nominal orbit. Flight VA241.

Al Yah-3

Wiki

Al Yah 3 is a planned Ka-band communication satellite Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat)', a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company. The Al Yah 3 satellite is built by Orbital based on the new GEOStar-3 bus. It has a launch weight of 3500 kg. The payload consists of 58 Ka-band spot beams.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

3,795 kilograms

SES-14/GOLD

Wiki

SES-14 is a communications satellite for SES. It hosts NASA’s Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument payload.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

4,423 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


97th

Mission

1st

Mission of 2018

European Space Agency


256th

Mission

1st

Mission of 2018

2018


12th

Orbital launch attempt