Final launch of Ariane 5 GS completes busy year

Yesterday, an Ariane 5 GS launcher lifted off from Europe?s Spaceport in French Guiana on a journey to place the French military reconnaissance satellite Helios-2B into Sun-synchronous polar orbit. Flight V193 was the seventh Ariane 5 launch of 2009 and used the last of the GS variant of the launcher.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM5TFAK73G_index_0.html

Time: 19. Dec. 2009

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Topics: ariane, launch