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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.

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 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.

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.

Ariane 5’s sky-lighting blastoff

October 17, 2014 Stephen Clark

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.

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