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Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: Badr-5 (Arabsat-5B); Date: 4 June 2010, 1100 UTC; Launch Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. After a nine-hour, 13-minute mission, the Briz M successfully released the Badr-5 satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
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Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: dummy Dragon capsule; Date: 4 June 2010, 1845 UTC; Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. SpaceX declared this first test flight of its rocket a near-perfect success.
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Loral Space & Communications Inc. announced that Barrett Xplore Inc., Canada’s largest rural broadband provider, has elected to maximise its capacity usage on Loral’s payload on the ViaSat-1 broadband satellite.
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