Europe's Ariane 5 rocket on Wednesday blasted off from French Guiana for the final time, carrying two military communications satellites and leaving its nations with a vacuum in autonomous access to space for the first time in more than four decades.
The 53-metre-tall, three-stage launcher left the launch pad in the French spaceport of Kourou on its 117th and final mission at 7 p.m. local time according to a live webcast.
The mission to deploy France's Syracuse 4B and Germany's Heinrich Hertz satellites to geostationary orbit caps 27 years of service for Ariane 5,Reporting by Tim Hepher in Paris and Joey Roulette in Washington Editing by Ben Klayman and Matthew Lewis
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