It was a busy launch day around the world on Friday. Above, the Ariane 5 rocket carrying the ST-2 and GSAT-8 communications satellites launched from Kourou, French Guiana, and below, about an hour and a half earlier, a Proton rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan bringing a Telstar 14R satellite to orbit. The Telstar satellite will provide communications services over the United States, Brazil and other parts of South America for Telesat of Canada, and the ST 2 will provide fixed and mobile voice and Internet to Asia and the Middle East.
Thanks to Chris Calubquib on Twitter for the updates and posting the launch videos on You Tube.
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