Fwd: Ariane 5 launch in images

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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: February 10, 2014 10:42:02 AM CST
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Relive the Ariane 5 launch in images

BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
February 8, 2014

Dual payloads to broadcast television and broadband signals for Asia Broadcast Satellite and French and Italian security forces rocketed into orbit on an Ariane 5 rocket Thursday on Arianespace's landmark 250th launch.

The fiery evening liftoff from the frontier of the Amazon jungle began a half-hour ascent, with the Ariane 5's twin solid rocket boosters expending more than a million pounds of pre-packed powder propellant, and the launcher's hydrogen-fueled first and second stages thrusting toward an orbit reaching as high as 22,330 miles above Earth.

The launch occurred at 2130 GMT (4:30 p.m. EST), one hour later than planned as ground teams waited for stormy weather to pass over the space base in Kourou, French Guiana.

See our Mission Status Center for the latest news on the launch.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M1sv2hAJgGI

Video credit: Arianespace

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Photo credit: NASA/Rick Mastracchio

 

 

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