50 reactions | Europe's Ariane 5 rocket 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 https://reut.rs/3NN6jVM | Reuters | Facebook

🚀It's not rocket science... oh wait it is! Join Ariane 6 launch system architect, Tina, as she shows us a day in her life. Tina has worked on space transport systems for 20 years now, first on the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), then on the Ariane 5 Mid-life Evolution development and now on Europe's newest launcher Ariane 6. How did she become a rocket scientist? "I was lucky enough to spend some months in French Guiana as a student for an internship and working there got me hooked – I was de

The Ariane 5 rocket lifted off for the last time on 6 July from the European Space Agency's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, leaving behind it a stellar track record.https://rfi.my/9lg1.f | RFI English