European rocket Ariane 5 lifts up to 10 tons, 50th flight
Post date: May 23, 2010 9:01:56 PM
Europe's Ariane 5 rocket has made its 50th flight
from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
The generic Ariane 5 launcher went into full commercial service in 1999,
and was followed a few years later by the beefed-up version, the ECA,
which is capable of lofting nearly 10 tonnes of payload into a
geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) some 36,000km above the Earth
video source: news.bbc.co.uk
