The Ariane 5 rocket has completed its 72nd consecutive successful launch and beaten its own commercial payload weight record, lifting more than 10.7 tonnes into geostationary transfer orbit.
Airbus Safran Launchers were the industrial lead contractor for the launch and the prime manufacturing contractor for the Ariane 5 rockets, which are manufactured under the authority of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales. The 230th Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from the European spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana) and exceeded…
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