Launch News Final Ariane 5 launch - VA261 - Heinrich-Hertz-Satellit & SYRACUSE 4B

[GLS]

The final launch of Europe's giant rocket.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1676509703994499072

Live stream:

 

[Urwumpe]

A nice way to end the program, its also the first launch of a German payload on an Ariane 5. In the past, our national payloads (without ESA involvement) had been launched by Space Shuttle, Titan III or Soyuz.

 

[GLS]

Less than 20 minutes to launch, webcast underway.

 

[GLS]

10 minutes, green board!

 

[C3PO]

This feels a bit weird to me. My first attempt at 3D-modeling was an extremely simple model of SYLDA.

 

[GLS]

2 minutes to go!

 

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Ignition and liftoff!

 

[llarian]

And she leaps for the skies !!

 

[GLS]

EAP separation!

 

[C3PO]

And she leaps for the skies !!

You can say that again... Oh wait...

 

[GLS]

Payload fairing separation!

 

[GLS]

The "X" in the trajactory plot is a bit behind the "O", but the lines are matching.

 

[GLS]

EPC shutdown and separation, ESC ignition!

 

[GLS]

ESC shutdown! Sat separations next.

 

[GLS]

Both sats separated!
Ariane 5 ended much better than it started!

 

[MarkWatney2015]

Ariane 5 ended much better than it started!

I agree

 

[Urwumpe]

And this was the Ariane 5 in Germans childrens TV. (Yes, we teach our children how to do controlled explosions by mixing two gases. What could go wrong?)

 

[N_Molson]

And this was the Ariane 5 in Germans childrens TV. (Yes, we teach our children how to do controlled explosions by mixing two gases. What could go wrong?)

Germans...

 

[Urwumpe]

Some bit of Ariane 5 nostalgia until Ariane 6 steps out of the cradle:

(I think it fits better in this thread than the ESA news thread)