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India awards Arianspace for more launches

New Delhi, India - They will be two telecommunication satellites

As it was widely emphasize during this week also by AVIONEWS, the launch of Arianes 5 was very important in order to decide the fates and the future of the carrier rocket that has taken the place of the reliable Ariane 4. Indeed after the disaster happened on December 12, cost nearly USD 500m, this was the crucial test: an other failure would have definitively discourage the possible customers. Instead...

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Rome, Italy, 04/11/2003 13:22
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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