Ariane 5 lifts two comsats, Japanese experiment
Submit on Saturday, October 14th, 2006 06:16
Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: DirecTV 9S, Optus D1, LDREX 2; Date: 13 October 2006, 2056 UTC; Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana. DirecTV was put into geostationary transfer orbit minutes approx. 27 minutes after lift-off, followed by Optus D1 four minutes later. The Japanese LDREX 2 antenna deployment experiment remained attached to the ESC-A upper stage.
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