The Hermes operations were designed to minimize mission costs and length while assuring a coherent and complete preparation of the Hermes space vehicle, and then of the Ariane 5/Hermes combination. They were foreseen as not greatly differing from the Ariane 5/automatic payload operations. The Hermes space vehicle was designed as a recoverable vehicle launched as a passenger of the Ariane 5 launcher in order to accomplish a certain number of missions of which two were considered as tailored for the design, others requiring certain adaptations.
Les Operations Hermes sur la Base de Lancement de Kourou (Hermes Operations in the Kourou Launch Base (French Guiana))
1991
3 pages
Report
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English
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