Arianespace breaks payload mass record on final Ariane 5 launch before Webb
Source: Spaceflight Now
Date Published: 10/24/2021
A European Ariane 5 rocket fired into space Saturday night from French Guiana with a commercial broadband satellite for SES and a French military telecom craft, setting a new payload mass record for geostationary transfer orbit on the final Ariane 5 flight before launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in December.
