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Launched a telecommunications satellite in the field of the Ariane project

Evry, France - The launch has been made tonight

By its French plant Arianespace says that this night round midnight (CET time) has taken off a new telecommunication satellite that will have to install at 36000 km height over the equator in an orbit over the Orient and Oceania, the lenght of the mission is previewed in 14 years. The rocket, named Ariane-44L, equipped with four propulsors engines fuelled with liquid propeller, has launched the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 37513
Rome, Italy, 12/18/2002 17:43
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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