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Ariane 5 lofts two payloads for exploration of the universe at Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Second Ariane 5 mission of 2009 delivered its Herschel and Planck scientific payloads into very elliptical orbits, which serve as the Earth escape trajectory for their voyage to the Sun-Earth system’s second Lagrange point (L2).