Update: 50th launch of Ariane 5 successful
Submit on Monday, May 24th, 2010 22:59
Lifting off from the Spaceport in French Guiana on 21 May (UTC), an Ariane 5 ECA successfully orbited the Astra 3B commercial telecommunications satellite for Luxembourg-based SES Astra, along with the COMSATBw-2 secure military relay spacecraft for Astrium GmbH on behalf of the German Bundeswehr (armed forces).
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