Around two minutes after launch, the boosters on either side of the shuttle will fall away, followed shortly afterwards by the giant external fuel tank strapped to the spaceship.

发射大约两分钟后，该航天飞机两侧的助推器将断离并掉落下来，紧接着被绑在飞船外部巨大的燃料箱也随着掉下来。八分半钟后，该航天飞机进入宇宙飞行。

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IF AFRICA's boosters and detractors agree on one thing, it is that the continent's image is poor.

非洲的支持者和批评者们只有在一件事上观点一致，即非洲的贫穷面貌。

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Bathed in xenon spotlights, the white spaceship, attached to its twin solid rocket boosters and orange external fuel tank, crept 3.4 miles on the back of an enormous tractor called the Crawler.

沐浴着氙气聚光灯光，白色的飞船，带着一对固体火箭推进器和橙色外挂燃料箱，在称为“爬行者”的巨大拖拉机上缓慢行驶了3.4英里。

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It's almost the same mix as in the solid-rocket boosters on the Space Shuttle, and it's powerful stuff.

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Wednesday's flight will use an Ariane 44L rocket equipped with four liquid strap-on boosters, the most powerful version of the Ariane-4 series.

CNN: Ariane to launch radio satellite for Africa

The Ariane 44L rocket equipped with four liquid strap-on boosters -- the most powerful in the Ariane-4 series -- lifted off at 7:16 p.m. local time (2216 GMT) from the European Space Agency (ESA) launch center in Kourou, on the northeast coast of South America.

CNN: Ariane rocket orbits U.S. communications satellites