Ariane 5 lift off
May 23, 2009
At 15:12:02 CEST, at the beginning of a 55-minute launch window, the Herschel and Planck satellite pair lifted off on board an Ariane 5 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
Topics:
Ariane, Ariane 5, European Space Agency, Ariane 2, Herschel Space Observatory, Spaceport, Guiana Space Centre, satellite pair, French Guiana, Europe
