Fwd: Ariane 5's evening ascent images

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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: September 15, 2014 10:42:18 AM CDT
To: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Subject: FW: Ariane 5's evening ascent images

 

 

Ariane 5's evening ascent

BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
September 14, 2014

Stacked inside the shroud of an Ariane 5 rocket, two commercial television broadcasting satellites for Malaysian and Australian telecommunications companies blasted off from French Guiana on Thursday.

The Measat 3b and Optus 10 spacecraft rocketed away from a launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana, at 2205 GMT (6:05 p.m. EDT), riding on top of an 18-story Ariane 5 booster to begin 15-year missions to broadcast television programming to millions of customers in the Asia-Pacific.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yv3NBj931Zg

Video credit: CNES

Photo credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace - Optique Video du CSG

 

Photo credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace - Optique Video du CSG - S. Martin

 

Photo credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace - Optique Video du CSG - S. Martin

Photo credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace - Optique Video du CSG - P. Baudon

 

Photo credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace - Optique Video du CSG - P. Baudon

 

Photo credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace - Optique Video du CSG - P. Baudon

 

Photo credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace - Optique Video du CSG - P. Baudon

 

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