Video: Exclusive film of Skynet 5A and INSAT 4B launching Ariane 5 rocket's launch pad

  Rob Coppinger London
04:00 12 Mar 2007 
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Arianespace’s Ariane 5 ECA flight 175 successfully launched the UK government’s Skynet 5A and Indian Space Research Organisation’s  INSAT 4B satellites from its Kourou, French Guiana launch complex into a geostationary transfer orbit at about 1900hr local time on Sunday 11 March.

Below is an exclusive video taken of the Skynet 5A/INSAT 4B launching Ariane 5 rocket's ELA-3 launch pad in Kourou by Flightglobal.com spaceflight specialist Rob Coppinger during a visit to the Kourou launch complex in February.