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Half-shell of Ariane 4 fairing
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Half-shell of Ariane 4 fairing

15/05/2012 438 views 0 likes 233388 ID

A large piece of Europe’s retired Ariane 4 launcher left French Guiana on 11 May 2012 on a long journey across the Atlantic for display at the Space Expo museum next to ESA’s ESTEC space research and technology centre in the Netherlands.

The payload fairing of half-shells was a flight-ready spare for the last Ariane 4 launch that took off in February 2003 from Europe’s Spaceport.

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