Tag: Azerbaijan
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 rocket launches for 100th time
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the Horizons 3e and Azerspace 2/Intelsat 38 communications satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video webcast will begin approximately 15 minutes before launch and will be available on this…
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Photos: Ariane 5 rolls to launch pad with two commercial comsats
An Ariane 5 rocket emerged from the final assembly building at the Guiana Space Center in South America on Monday for the journey across the tropical spaceport to the ELA-3 launch zone, where the 179-foot-tall (54.8-meter) booster will lift off Tuesday with a pair of commercial communications satellites. What’s special about Tuesday’s mission is that…
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Concerns with Indian satellite postpone next Ariane 5 launch
The GSAT 11 satellite arrived in French Guiana from India in late March. This photo shows the spacecraft in its shipping container during offloading from an Antonov An-124 cargo plane at Félix Eboué Airport in Cayenne, French Guiana. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – H. Rouffie India’s most powerful communications satellite will…