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World's biggest satellite blasts off into space courtesy of Ariane 5

Thursday, July 2, 2009
World's biggest satellite blasts off into space courtesy of Ariane 5


There was a rumble in the jungle yesterday as the TerreStar-1 satellite set off on its one-way trip into space from a launch pad in French Guyana. After storms delayed blast-off, the 7.6-ton behemoth finally went up, hitching a lift aboard euro rocket Ariane 5 at 17:52 GMT. You can see it kiss the sky in a video after the jump.

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