Ariane IV (Ariane 40) lift off 12/1999

by: ESA/CNES/ Arianespace/CSG/Novapix
Reference: e-leu11-00900
Date: 2007-11-30

An Ariane 40, with no strap-on booster, lifts off from the Launch Zone of the Ariane Launch Complex no.2 (ELA-2) at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's space port, on one of its rare daylight launches, on December 3, 1999. The payload for this launch (V124) was Helios 1B, a French military observation satellite. Clementine, a military technology microsatellite was flown piggyback on an Ariane Structure for Auxiliary Payloads (ASAP-4). The Ariane 40 is the least powerful version of the Ariane 4.

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