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ESA: Athena Fidus launched (VIDEO)

Kourou, French Guyana - The French-Italian dual broadband telecommunications satellite is in orbit

The first Ariane 5 launch of the year lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana yesterday evening on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, ABS-2 & Athena–Fidus, into their planned transfer orbits. Liftoff of flight VA217 occurred at 21:30 GMT (22:30 CET; 18:30 French Guiana). The target orbits had a perigee altitude of 244 km, an apogee altitude of 35 934 km and an...

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Rome, Italy, 02/07/2014 12:58
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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