This is his final trip.
The last copy of the centerpiece of Ariane 5 has just come out of the workshops in Les Mureaux (Yvelines).
In the secrecy of a sanitized hangar, the main stage of the rocket, some thirty meters high, went from vertical to horizontal on Monday to be loaded into a specially manufactured container.
The "box" will be transferred to a barge which will leave soon (the date is kept secret) for Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) then Kourou (Guyana), at the end of an Atlantic crossing of almost three weeks.
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