Ariane 5 ECA | Hot Bird 7 & Stentor

Name: Ariane 5 ECA | Hot Bird 7 & Stentor
Start: 2002-12-11T22:21:00Z
Location: Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

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 Details

Launch date: December 11, 2002 at 10:21 PM UTC
Launch vehicle: Ariane 5 ECA
Operator: Arianespace
Launch site: Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Mission type: Communications