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Images Dated 20th May 1996

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Choose from 6 pictures in our Images Dated 20th May 1996 collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.

Artwork showing the Ariane series of launchers
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Sunset over a snow-covered field with sheep in it
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Overall view and cut-away of the Ariane 5 launcher
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Two circuit boards meeting at a spot of light
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Abstract image of a circuit board
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Dried lentils, a type of pulse
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Featured 20 May 1996 Print

Overall view and cut-away of the Ariane 5 launcher

Ariane 5. Artwork showing an overall view (left) and cut-away view (right) of the European Ariane 5 launcher. Ariane 5 consists of a large first stage (lower 2/3rds of the central vehicle) flanked by two solid rocket boosters, with a smaller second stage (top 1/3rd). Most of the first stage is taken up by the vast liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen tanks, which feed the single Vulcain motor at bottom. The second stage is powered by a DASA engine powered by storable propellants (dinitrogen tetroxide and monomethyl hydrazine). The payload depicted here is the Cluster mission with its four identical spacecraft. The first Ariane 5 mission, carrying Cluster, is due for launch in mid-1996