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The Ariane 5 ECA launcher blasted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits. Flight V192 was the sixth Ariane 5 launch of 2009 and the fourth dual-payload mission.
Remarkably, the entire mission from launch to completing delivery of the satellites into orbit took just 31 minutes.
Image Credit: ESA/Arianespace.