Wafaa looking at last Ariane 5

Wafaa Tabibi, now part of ESA’s Product Assurance Team of Ariane 6 Launch System Architects (under contract to Telespazio, Belgium), looking at Ariane 5 flight VA261 on the launch pad at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

The Ariane 5 rocket liftoff for flight VA261 was on 5 July at 23:00 BST (6 July at 00:00 CEST). Flight VA261 carried two payloads into space – the German space agency DLR’s experimental communications satellite Heinrich Hertz and the French communications satellite Syracuse 4b. The flight was the 117th and final mission for Ariane 5, a series which began in 1996.