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Ariane-5 to launch on June an Australian satellite for military and commercial purposes

Sydney, Australia - Lower costs, same functionality

It will blast off from the launching pad Ela-3 in French Guyana cosmodrome at the beginning of June thanks to the rocket Arianes-5, a satellite for the Australian communications that has the particular characteristic to be used both for military and commercial purposes. Indeed the construction of the probe is the result of the combined effort of the Australian civil and military fields that decided...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 45007
Rome, Italy, 05/08/2003 17:22
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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