Ariane 5 launches U.S. Internet and European weather satellites
Submit on Thursday, July 5th, 2012 22:59
Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: EchoStar XVII (aka Jupiter), MSG-3 (Meteosat 10); Date: 5 July 2012, 2136 UTC; Launch Site: Kourou, French Guyana. For this third Ariane 5 mission of 2012, the satellites were deployed into geostationary transfer orbit during a 34-minute flight.
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