Ariane 5’s sixth launch of 2010

Wednesday, December 29, 2010 - 18:00 in Astronomy & Space

This evening, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport on a journey to place two telecommunications satellites, Hispasat-1E and Koreasat-6, into their planned transfer orbits. Flight V199 was the sixth Ariane 5 launch of 2010 and the last of the year.

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