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Launch of VA258 carrying Eutelsat Konnect VHTS by europeanspaceagency The fourth Spacebus Neo satellite to benefit from ESA’s Neosat programme has launched into space on board the second Ariane 5 launch mission of 2022. The 8.9 metre, three-storeys-high communications satellite – which will deliver high-speed broadband and in-flight connectivity across Europe for its operator, Eutelsat – weighs 6.525 tonnes and accounted for 99% of the 6.62-tonne launch mass. Called Eutelsat Konnect Very High Throughput Satellite, it includes several innovative features developed under an ESA Partnership Project with satellite manufacturer Thales Alenia Space. The satellite was launched at 23:45 CEST (18:45 local time) on 6 September from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, into a sub-synchronous transfer orbit. This highly elliptical trajectory, which loops from close to Earth to up to 60 000 kilometres away from the planet at an inclination of 3.5°, will enable it to transfer into a geostationary orbit some 36 000 kilometres above Earth. After reaching geostationary orbit the satellite – the tallest ever built in Europe – will be tested further before it enters commercial service. The satellite features new antenna deployment and pointing mechanisms used within the antenna tracking system, as well as other innovative features including next-generation batteries and structural panels, all developed under the ESA Partnership Project. Credits: ESA / CNES / Arianespace / Optique vidéo du CSG - P. Piron https://flic.kr/p/2nKwrm7

40 years ago... 1980, September 18 - 26... Soyuz 38 to Salyut-6 On September 18, 1980 the Soyuz 38 crew was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the Salyut-6 space station. It was the seventh Interkosmos mission, this time flying a cosmonaut from Cuba, Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez together with commander Yuri Romanenko who made his second spaceflight. Romanenko was an experienced Air Force pilot who went on to make 3 spaceflight missions and became director of the Russian Buran shuttle program. Tamayo Mendez was the first hispanophone & person from African descent to fly in space, he wore a Seiko Bell Matic Daydate wristwatch. Romanenko wore his Omega 861 Speedmaster chronograph, which he received as a support-cosmonaut on ASTP in 1973-74 . (Photo: TASS)

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Launch of VA258 carrying Eutelsat Konnect VHTS by europeanspaceagency The fourth Spacebus Neo satellite to benefit from ESA’s Neosat programme has launched into space on board the second Ariane 5 launch mission of 2022. The 8.9 metre, three-storeys-high communications satellite – which will deliver high-speed broadband and in-flight connectivity across Europe for its operator, Eutelsat – weighs 6.525 tonnes and accounted for 99% of the 6.62-tonne launch mass. Called Eutelsat Konnect Very High Throughput Satellite, it includes several innovative features developed under an ESA Partnership Project with satellite manufacturer Thales Alenia Space. The satellite was launched at 23:45 CEST (18:45 local time) on 6 September from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, into a sub-synchronous transfer orbit. This highly elliptical trajectory, which loops from close to Earth to up to 60 000 kilometres away from the planet at an inclination of 3.5°, will enable it to transfer into a geostationary orbit some 36 000 kilometres above Earth. After reaching geostationary orbit the satellite – the tallest ever built in Europe – will be tested further before it enters commercial service. The satellite features new antenna deployment and pointing mechanisms used within the antenna tracking system, as well as other innovative features including next-generation batteries and structural panels, all developed under the ESA Partnership Project. Credits: ESA / CNES / Arianespace / Optique vidéo du CSG - P. Piron https://flic.kr/p/2nKy1UW