Ariane rocket lifts off in S. America, taking French spy satellite into space
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PARIS  - An Ariane rocket blasted off Saturday from a pad in South America to place France's third military spy satellite into orbit, Arianespace said.
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After four launch delays in as many days, a rocket carrying a spy satellite blasted off Tuesday.
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A Boeing Co. Delta 2 rocket successfully launched a new US Air Force Global Positioning Satellite into orbit from Florida Saturday.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tanegashima Island, Japan, 11 September: The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency launched a rocket carrying an intelligence- gathering satellite from Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima Prefecture on Monday [11 September].
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MOSCOW - Russia successfully launched a rocket on Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival America's GPS.
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A Russian booster rocket carried a U.S. telecommunications satellite into space on Friday, officials said.
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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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Military communications via PFI British military intelligence satellite SkyNet5 blasted off into space this weekend from Kourou in French Guiana. The launch was originally scheduled for Saturday, but a small glitch in ground equipment prompted a 24 hour delay.â¦
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Europe's Ariane 5 rocket lofts two satellites from the Kourou spaceport in its last mission of the year.
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In a crucial mission for Europe's space program, an upgraded Ariane-5 rocket successfully orbited two satellites into space on Saturday - two years after a first attempt ended in failure.
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A rocket carrying a next-generation Earth-imaging satellite blasted off Tuesday on a mission that promises to zoom in on objects as small as 18 inches across.
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France enhanced their arsenal for their internal security when they launched a surveillance satellite from a launch pad in French Guyana.
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An Ariane space rocket is to launch a 2.6-tonne South Korean satellite sometime in late 2008 or early 2009 under the terms of a recently concluded agreement, Arianespace has said.
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Arianespace signed an order for 35 top of the range Ariane 5 ECA rockets from EADS Astrium Saturday at the Paris Air Show, for an undisclosed sum, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy attending.
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Russia successfully launches Europe's most powerful telecommunications satellite.
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The American probe becomes the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet back to Earth.
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A massive new Boeing rocket lumbered from its seaside pad Tuesday on a mission to prove the vehicle is capable of lofting super-sized military satellites into orbit.