Guiana Space Centre - Recent Launches

Recent Launches

• 5 October 2007 - An Ariane 5 GS launched from CSG carrying Intelsat 11 and Optus D2.
• 9 March 2008 - An Ariane 5 launched carrying the ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) Jules Verne in preparation for docking with the ISS. This was the first launch of the ESA unmanned resupply craft.
• 18 April 2008 - An Ariane 5 launched carrying Vinasat-1 - Vietnam's first satellite.
• 14 August 2008 - An Ariane 5 carrying Superbird 7 for Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and AMC-21 for SES Americom
• 20 December 2008 - An Ariane 5 carrying HOT BIRD 9 AND W2M for Eutelsat
• 14 May 2009 - An Ariane 5 carrying the ESA's Herschel and Planck space telescopes
• 1 July 2009 - An Ariane 5 carrying TerreStar-1, the heaviest commercial telecommunications satellite ever launched
• 21 May 2011 - 4.38AM (GMT+08:00) An Ariane 5 ECA rocket launched carrying ST-2 Satellite twice as powerful SingTel’s first satellite ST-1 which was launched back in 1998. It will provide 20 per cent more transponder capacity and a wider coverage footprint than ST-1, with C-band and Ku-band coverage of the Middle East, Central Asia, Indian sub-continent and Southeast Asia.
• 21 October 2011 - A Soyuz-2 carrying two Galileo satellites was launched. This was the first launch of a Soyuz rocket at the Guiana Space Centre.
• 17 December 2011 - A Soyuz carrying the French space agency's Pleiades 1 Earth imaging satellite, four ELISA electronic intelligence satellites, and the SSOT remote sensing satellite for the Chilean military. This was the second launch of a Soyuz at the Guiana Space Centre.
• 13 February 2012 - The Vega, which was designed in Italy, lifted off at 10:00 GMT on its maiden voyage. The launcher released nine satellites into orbit: two Italian satellites and seven pico-satellites.
• 5 July 2012 - The unmanned Ariane 5 rocket took off to send an American communication satellite and European weather-monitoring spacecraft into orbit. Liftoff occurred at 5:36 p.m. EDT (2136 GMT).