An Ariane 5 launches two satellites from Kourou

The Ariane was  launched with a gross  weight take-off of more than 9.5 tons. AP

This is 49 consecutive successful launch of Ariane.

It was launched with the mission of putting into orbit two satellites transfer gestational the weather observation.

Two satellites, EchoStar seventeenth and MSG-3, were successfully put into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 rocket that took off Thursday night from the Kourou base, 

All set in Kourou for the launch of the tenth satellite Meteosat

The first of this new chain, renamed Meteosat-8, was launch into orbit in 2002 and Meteosat-9 three years later. SPECIAL.

Analyze the sunlight reflected by the surface of the Earth.

The satellite is designed to try to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts

Europe's Spaceport in Kourou in (French Guiana),