Ariane Rocket Launches French Spy Satellite
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A European Ariane rocket launched a military surveillance satellite on Saturday, the third in a French-led drive for a European &quot;spy in the sky&quot; independent of the United States.
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An Ariane rocket has lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, carrying seven satellites, including at least one that is to gather intelligence for France&#39;s military.
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A rocket carrying an Israeli spy satellite intended to boost the Jewish state&#39;s surveillance over arch-enemy Iran crashed into the sea shortly after liftoff on Monday, officials and defense sources said.
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PARIS France says a satellite placed in orbit today gives it new abilities to spy worldwide. The Helios Two-A military satellite was launched from French Guiana and put in orbit along with six smaller scientific ones about an hour later.
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NASA&#39;s Swift satellite successfully launched today aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket at 12:16 pm EST from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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[World News]: Paris, Dec 19 : France has launched an Ariane rocket from Kourou in French Guiana, placing into orbit a new-generation military satellite Helios II A. The launch Saturday also placed in orbit
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France launched an Ariane rocket on December 18, lifting into orbit the new-generation military satellite Helios II A and six microsatellites for different scientific purposes, said reports reaching Kourou, French Guiana.
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An Ariane-5 rocket is set to take off from French Guiana Saturday in a crucial launch for Europe's space program, two years after the costly failure of a first attempted launch.
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Israel launched an advanced spy satellite Monday that will be able to track events in Iran, the country it considers its top foe, even at night and in cloudy weather, defense officials said.
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France said on Thursday an Iranian rocket Tehran says is intended to put a satellite into orbit is in fact a missile that cannot navigate in space, and added to concerns that the technology is aimed at making weapons.
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An Ariane-5 rocket  blasted off from French Guyana on Friday putting into orbit  telecommunications satellites for Africa and North America, the  six Ariane mission this year.
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KOUROU, French Guyana  - An Ariane-5 rocket  blasted off from French Guyana on Friday putting into orbit  telecommunications satellites for Africa and North America, the  six Ariane mission this year.
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A European rocket roared into space from a pad in South America on Saturday, placing into orbit a surveillance satellite billed as giving France's military new abilities to spy worldwide.
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A European rocket roared into space from a pad in French Guyana yesterday, placing into orbit a surveillance satellite expected to give France&#39;s military new abilities to spy worldwide.
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An attempt by Israel to launch a sophisticated spy satellite into space failed Monday afternoon, the Defense Ministry announced. According to a statement, the rocket, known as a Shavit I, failed in its third stage.
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Russia launched Thursday a satellite designed to test the feasibility of the world&#39;s first space hotel, the brainchild of a Las Vegas hotel tycoon who hopes to begin construction in 2011, officials said.
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A European Space Agency rocket entered moon orbit Monday in a unique mission using a pioneering power plant. The s-called SMART-1 spacecraft blasted off from Kourou, French Guiana, Sept.