FINAL ARIANE 5 FOR 2009 RETURNS TO THE LAUNCH PAD
16 Dec 2009, 00:00 UTC
Ariane 5 has been transferred to the ELA-3 launch zone with its Helios 2B satellite payload, starting the final countdown to a mid-day liftoff tomorrow. Arianespace's seventh mission of 2009 will deploy this 4,200-kg. French spacecraft into a Sun-synchronous polar orbit.
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