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Ariane 5 Launches Communications, Science Satellites

Submit on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 11:00

An Arianespace Ariane-5 rocket Oct. 13 completed a daylight launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, orbiting the DirecTV-9S and Optus-D1 satellites along with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)’s LDREX-2 piggyback payload. This was the…

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