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Six Astrium satellites launched in a month

Kourou, French Guyana - 37th consecutive successful launch under industry‘s prime-contractorship

Following the second successful Ariane 5 launch this year – six satellites built by Astrium have now been launched within a month: COMSATBw-2 and ASTRA 3B on 21 May, Arabsat 5B by a Proton launcher on 4 June, TanDEM-X by Dnepr on 21 June and now Arabsat 5A and COMS by Ariane 5 in the last days. The six satellites include three commercial communications satellites (Arabsat 5A & 5B, and ASTRA 3B), a...

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Rome, Italy, 06/28/2010 17:23
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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