Tag: Thor 7
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Photos: Telecom satellites blast off from the jungle
Look back on Sunday’s launch of an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s jungle spaceport in French Guiana with two communications satellites for a commercial Norwegian telecom operator and Franco-Italian military authorities. The 18-story Ariane 5 rocket blasted off at 2000 GMT (4 p.m. EDT; 5 p.m. local time) from the Guiana Space Center with the…
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Commercial Ariane 5 flight rescheduled for Sunday
The 179-foot-tall Ariane 5 rocket rolled to the launch pad Thursday, but had to return to the Guiana Space Center’s final assembly building for repairs. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Optique Video du CSG – G. Barbaste Arianespace plans to launch an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana on Sunday after fixing a disconnected helium vent line…
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Live coverage: Two satellites lift off aboard Ariane 5
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the Thor 7 and Sicral 2 communications satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Ariane 5 in position for dual-satellite launch
Rolling out for its first liftoff of the year Friday, 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. Pulled under the power of a 540-horsepower Titan tug, the 179-foot-tall rocket arrived at the ELA-3 launch…
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Ariane 5 launch postponed by faulty connector
File photo of an Ariane 5 rocket and its cryogenic umbilical arms. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG 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. The tandem satellite delivery mission…