Europe’s Ariane 5 workhorse lit up the night skies over the edge of the Amazon Thursday night, rumbling into orbit on a record-setting mission with a pair of high-powered broadband satellites for the United States and Europe
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Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from the ELA-3 launch site at the Guiana Space Center at 23:45 UTC on Thursday, June 1, 2017 establishing a new record for the heaviest payload lifted into Geostationary Transfer Orbit by the workhorse launcher.
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Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from the ELA-3 launch site at the Guiana Space Center at 23:45 UTC on Thursday, June 1, 2017 establishing a new record for the heaviest payload lifted into Geostationary Transfer Orbit by the workhorse launcher.
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Europe’s Ariane 5 workhorse reached its launch pad on the edge of the Amazon jungle on Wednesday in preparation for a Thursday night liftoff with a pair of milestone communications satellites from the United States and Europe.
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Bits and pieces of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket returned to port Saturday night aboard the company’s Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship after last Wednesday’s “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” of the first stage upon landing.
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A Falcon 9 rocket carrying two stacked satellites lifted off from Florida’s Space Coast on Wednesday, making the sixth SpaceX launch of the year.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocketed off from its Florida Space Coast Launch Pad on Wednesday, propelling a pair of stacked satellites into Geostationary Transfer Orbit and conducting another high-speed landing attempt of its first stage.
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A Falcon 9 rocket carrying two stacked satellites lifted off from Florida’s Space Coast on Wednesday, making the sixth SpaceX launch of the year.
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SpaceX cleared their Falcon 9 for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday to deliver a pair of communications satellites to Geostationary Transfer Orbit, marking Falcon’s third GTO mission in a row and the third launch in a period of under six weeks.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket hot fired its engines on Sunday to set up for the vehicle’s third commercial communications satellite launch in the space of just under six weeks.
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The Eutelsat 65 West A Communications Satellite received a smooth ride by its Ariane 5 launch vehicle, arriving in a relatively accurate orbit to begin a ten-day climb into Geostationary Orbit.
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An Ariane 5 rocket blasts off from the Guiana Space Center in the dark of night on Wednesday, racing into the skies over its equatorial launch site to deliver the Eutelsat 65 West A satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit in the launcher’s second single-payload mission of the year.
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Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket made a middle-of-the-night liftoff on Wednesday, thundering into the dark skies over French Guiana headed due east for a trip to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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An Ariane 5 rocket rolled to its equatorial launch pad at the Guiana Space Center on Tuesday to set the stage for a Wednesday morning liftoff, carrying the Eutelsat 65 West A satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Russia’s Proton-M Rocket conducted its first launch of the year Wednesday night, successfully lifting the Eutelsat 9B spacecraft to Geostationary Transfer Orbit in a flight lasting nine hours and 12 minutes.
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A Russian Proton rocket raced into the night skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, embarking on a long overnight mission to deliver the Eutelsat 9B communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Russia’s Proton-M rocket is set to open a busy year of launches from Russian Cosmodromes on Friday, lifting the Eutelsat 9B communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit in a mission lasting nine hours and 12 minutes.
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