FLIGHT VA255 NOW SCHEDULED ON OCTOBER 23

The investigations on the ground equipment being completed and the anomaly having been identified and corrected, the new launch window for Ariane Flight VA255: Between 09:01 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Washington, D.C. time, on October 23; Between 10:01 p.m. and 00:30 a.m. Kourou time, on October 23; Between 01:01 a.m. and 03:30 a.m. Universal time (UTC), on October 24; Between 03:01 a.m. and 05:30 a.m. Paris time, October 24; Between 10:01 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Tokyo time, October 24. For its 11th launch of 2021 with the second Ariane 5 of the year, scheduled for October 22, Arianespace will orbit two geostationary satellites: SES-17, a high throughput satellite operated by SES and SYRACUSE 4A, a telecommunications satellite developed for the French Ministry of Armed Forces. This 111th Ariane 5 mission will mark three new milestones for the heavy-lift European launcher: it will carry an overall performance of approximately 11.2 metric tons, the combined mass of its two payloads will be metric tons and