Live coverage: Ariane 5 launches for DirecTV

A Japanese-owned communications satellite built in Colorado and a South Korean environmental monitoring observatory shared an Ariane 5 rocket ride into orbit Tuesday from the South American jungle.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday evening, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the SES 11/EchoStar 105 communications satellite into orbit 36 minutes later.

An Intelsat communications spacecraft running low on fuel has resumed commercial operations more than 22,000 miles over the Atlantic Ocean after getting an assist from a pioneering servicing satellite earlier this year.