Artemis - "A lost mission" on course for a full recovery

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May 2002

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ESA Bulletin (ISSN 0376-4265), No. 110, p. 9 - 16 (2002)

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Space Missions, Recovery

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Artemis was launched on Ariane flight 142 from Kourou in French Guiana on 12 July 2001. Unfortunately, the second stage of the launcher did not perform to the full, resulting in an abnormal transfer orbit with an apogee of only 17000 km instead of the nominal 36000 km. For any other standard communication satellite this would have been the end of the mission. Indeed, for insurance purposes, Artemis has been declared a "total loss". However, thanks to the combination of technologies onboard Artemis, a recovery of the mission is possible. At the time of publication, the final phase of recovery has achieved 1100 of the 5000 km needed to reach geostationary orbit.

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