Hauling two heavy satellites into orbit, Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket checked off its fourth successful flight of the year on Wednesday, the 80th success in a row for the workhorse launcher in a streak that has been going since 2002.
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Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket blasted off from the ELA-3 launch pad at the Guiana Space Center at 21:15 UTC on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 on its fourth heavy-lift mission of the year, carrying a pair of communications satellites
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Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket blasted off from the ELA-3 launch pad at the Guiana Space Center at 21:15 UTC on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 on its fourth heavy-lift mission of the year, carrying a pair of communications satellites to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket stands ready for liftoff from South America on Wednesday on another heavy haul into Geostationary Transfer Orbit with a pair of satellites for India and commercial operators Inmarsat and Hellas Sat.
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Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket is assembled at the Guiana Space Center for its fourth mission of 2017 with the Inmarsat-S / HellasSat-3 multi-mission satellite in the upper position and India’s GSAT-17 C- and S-Band satellite in the lower payload berth.
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The Inmarsat-S/HellasSat-3 multi-mission communications satellite completes final checkouts at the Guiana Space Center in preparation for propellant loading and integration atop its Ariane 5 launch vehicle
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The Indian GSAT-17 telecommunications satellite arrives at the Guiana Space Center for final pre-launch processing consisting of a series of ckeckouts including solar array and antenna deployment tests ahead of propellant loading for flight to be ready for integration atop the European workhorse launcher.
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