Hylas-1 satellite readied for launch from Europe’s Spaceport

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 03:31 in Astronomy & Space

The Hylas-1 telecommunications satellite has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Its next journey will be to space, on an Ariane 5 launcher towards its operational orbit nearly 36 000 km up.

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