Ariane 5 has lifted off from the Spaceport in French Guiana for Arianespace’s mission to deploy two commercial telecommunications satellites for Asia-Pacific operators. Malaysian-based operator MEASAT’s MEASAT-3b spacecraft is Flight VA218’s upper passenger with the Optus 10 satellite for Australia’s Optus riding in Ariane 5’s lower position.

Arianespace Flight / MEASAT-3b and Optus 10

Arianespace was founded in 1980 as the world’s first satellite launch company. Today, it has 21 shareholders from 10 European countries (including CNES with 34%, Astrium with 30% and all European companies participating in the Ariane 5 programme). Since its creation, Arianespace has signed contracts with 78 customers and launched with Ariane launchers 298 payloads, accounting for more than half of the commercial satellites now in service worldwide.

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