XMM-Newton

ARIANE 504 campaign

Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace - S. Corvaja

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ARIANE 504's fairing detail (including flags). The world's most powerful observatory for X-ray astronomy, the European Space Agency's XMM satellite, set off into space from Kourou, French Guiana, at 15:32 Paris time on 10 December 1999. The mighty Ariane 5 launcher, making its very first commercial launch, hurled the 3.9-tonne spacecraft into a far-ranging orbit. Ariane-5 is an ESA programme for which ESA delegated management responsibility to CNES. Launch operations are managed by Arianespace at the ELA-3 launch site at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's space port (French Guiana).

Event Date
1999-12-10
Release Date
2001-01-15
Programme
XMM
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