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Ariane 5

Ariane 5

Ariane 5 in position for dual-satellite launch

April 23, 2015 Stephen Clark

Rolling out for its first liftoff of the year, an Ariane 5 rocket journeyed out of a launcher assembly building Thursday and rode railroad tracks to its launch pad in French Guiana with two European communications satellites.

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Ariane 5 launch postponed by faulty connector

April 14, 2015 Stephen Clark

Arianespace has postponed this week’s launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with two European communications satellites to replace a faulty fluid connector between the launcher and its mobile launch platform, officials said Tuesday.

Ariane 5

Ariane 5 sends up satellites for DirecTV, India

December 6, 2014 Stephen Clark

Two communications satellites rode an Ariane 5 rocket into space Saturday — one to beam down ultra-sharp television programming into millions of American homes and another craft to give Indian citizens expanded access to information technology.

Ariane 5

Live coverage: Ariane 5 blasts off on commercial flight

December 6, 2014 Stephen Clark

After a two-day delay caused by unfavorable high-altitude winds, an Ariane 5 rocket lifted off Saturday at 3:40 p.m. EST (2040 GMT) from French Guiana with communications satellites for DirecTV and India.

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Ariane 5’s sky-lighting blastoff

October 17, 2014 Stephen Clark

Ariane 5

Two satellites for Latin America launched by Ariane 5

October 16, 2014 Stephen Clark

An Ariane 5 launcher fired into space from French Guiana, hauling two commercial satellites destined to broadcast television to Latin America for Intelsat, DirecTV and Argentina’s national telecom company.

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Ariane 5 Mission Status Center

October 16, 2014 Stephen Clark

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Ariane 5 rocket diagram

October 16, 2014 Stephen Clark

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Ariane 5 rocket to boost satellites for Latin America

October 16, 2014 Stephen Clark

Two telecommunications satellite for Latin America are counting down to liftoff aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana.

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