A European Ariane 6 rocket blasted off from France's Kourou space base in French Guiana on Tuesday night, carrying a new environmental monitoring satellite, AFP reported.
Lift-off was at 6:02 pm local time (2102 GMT) and is the third commercial flight of the Ariane 6 launch system since the expendable rockets came into service last year.
The rocket was carrying a Sentinel-1D satellite
