fuel cloud after ariane 5 rocket launch
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ESA's Ariane 5 rocket was launched on 12 december 2017 at 18:36 UT from
Kourou in French Guyana. It carried four Galileo satellites into orbit.
17 minutes after launch, a conspicious small and elongated cloud raced
all over the sky of central Europe. Probably it is a fuel cloud
of a separated rocket stage from the Ariane 5. The above time lapse
was taken with 8 s exposures and 10 s interval total. A small dashed trail is
visible in the cloud, the rotating rocket remnant. The observation and
identification was confirmed by the netherlands
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