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    • Diagram of the Ariane 5 rocket.
    Rights: M0tty Creative Commons ShareAlike 3.0, GNU Free Documentation Licence Published 30 November 2011 Size: 200 KB Referencing Hub media

    Ariane 5 is a European Space Agency and Arianespace rocket used to launch satellites. It is 50 m tall with two stages. It is designed to carry two satellites into orbit.

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      Getting rockets into space

      Rockets launched into space can be suborbital (brief visit to space) or orbital (staying in motion around the Earth) or can escape Earth’s gravity to travel deeper into space. What is space? The ...

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