Sunday, August 5, 2012

Ariane 5 performs 50th successful launch in a row




An Ariane 5 launches dual payloads.

Tonight marked the 50th successful Ariane flight in a row: an Ariane 5 was launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana to perform a dual deployment of two telecommunications satellites, Intelsat 20 and Hylas-2, into their planned transfer orbits.
Lift off of flight VA208 took place on Thursday 2 August at 22:54 CEST; 17:54 French Guiana time. This was Ariane 5's fourth launch of 2012, continuing a line of launch successes unbroken since 2003.


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