Ariane 5 Rocket Launches 2 Commercial Satellites to Orbit

Friday, October 17, 2014 - 02:30 in Astronomy & Space

An Ariane 5 launcher fired into space Thursday (Oct. 16) from French Guiana, hauling two commercial satellites destined to broadcast television to Latin America for Intelsat, DirecTV and Argentina's national telecom company.

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