Launch: Arianespace successfully launched India's Insat 3A and PanAmSat's Galaxy 12 communications satellites last week using an Ariane 5G, restoring some of the confidence lost when the enhanced Ariane 5 ECA failed on its maiden flight in December. The Indian Space Research Organisation, which built Insat 3A, plans to launch Insat 4A next year and Insat 4B in 2005, again using Ariane 5s. Galaxy 12 was built by Orbital Sciences. A test launch of the Ariane 5 ECA with a dummy payload is expected early next year.
Source: Flight International
