Unique photos captured last week’s Ariane 5 launch with a quadruplet of Galileo navigation satellites but observers also had eyes high in the sky to capture equally tantalizing views of the four satellites arriving at their orbit destination nearly 23,000 Kilometers above the Earth.
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Stunning photos captured by ESA Photographers show Europe’s Ariane 5 workhorse blasting off from the Guiana Space Center on November 17, 2016 on a record-setting mission.
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Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket rumbled off from South America on Thursday to carry into orbit the first quadruplet of Galileo Navigation Satellites, expanding the constellation to enter initial operational services
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Four Galileo navigation satellites complete processing at the Guiana Space Center before being integrated on a purpose-made dispenser on which the satellites ride into orbit side by side atop their Ariane 5 ES rocket.
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An Ariane 5 ES rocket is assembled at the Guiana Space Center for the first launch of four Galileo satellites to expand Europe’s growing navigation satellite constellation to 18 spacecraft for the start of initial services.
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