Arianespace

Hot Bird 7 & Stentor

Ariane 5 ECA

FAILURE
Failure

Wednesday, December 11, 2002 · 22:21 UTC

Mission

/01

Hot Bird 7 was a French communications satellite for direct to home broadcasting services from geostationary orbit at a longitude of 13 degrees East. Stentor is an experimental programme to validate technologies to be integrated into the next generation of telecommunications spacecraft.

Mission Type

Communications

Orbit

Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Failure

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Ariane 5 ECA

Variant: ECA

Launch Pad

Ariane Launch Area 3

Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

5.239° N, 52.768° W

14

Pad Launches

165

Location Launches

151

Agency Launches

58

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