Alphasat I-XL lifts off on an Ariane 5 launcher
Alphasat I-XL lifts off on an Ariane 5 launcher
Europe's largest telecommunications satellite, Alphasat I-XL, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 21:54 CEST on 25 July 2013 on board an Ariane 5 launcher. Twenty-eight minutes later, it was injected into geostationary transfer orbit.
