Ariane rocket places military satellite in space:
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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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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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By JOHN ANTCZAK LOS ANGELES - A rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite exploded Tuesday during launch from an oceangoing platform in the equatorial Pacific.
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MOSCOW. June 8 (Interfax-AVN) - A military satellite of the Cosmos series has been placed into its designated orbit after being launched from the Plesetsk launch pad in the Arkhangelsk region on Thursday, Space Forces spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin told Interfax- AVN.
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China successfully put its earth resource satellite, the third of ZY-2, into the orbit with a Chinese Long-March 4-B rocket that blasted off at 11:10 am Saturday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China&#39;s Shanxi Province.
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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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Europe's "super rocket" which can lift more than one and heavier satellites into orbit is ready for its first trip into space.
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U.S. launches rocket carrying two satellites into space    WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- A rocket carrying two experimental satellites for U.S. Air Force and NASA was launched into space at 7:00 a.m.
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Satellite observation and control networks in China and France yesterday successfully tracked the orbiting of a satellite launched by the French Government.
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A European satellite designed to improve weather forecasting has been given a new launch date.
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A rocket has been launched carrying a satellite to track and study the most powerful explosions seen in the universe since the Big Bang.
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A recoverable science experimental satellite is launched atop a Long March 2C carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province, northwest China Aug. 29, 2004.
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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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France launched an Ariane rocket on Saturday, 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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New China News Agency reported that the satellite was set into orbit by a &#39;Long Walking- 2C&#39; rocket. The satellite was launched at 15:50 local time (10:50 in Turkey) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launching Center in Gansu province in northwestern China.
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MOSCOW. June 15 (Interfax-AVN) - A Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr launch vehicle, which is a converted RS-20B heavy strategic missile, has placed Germany's TerraSar-X radar satellite into its near Earth orbit, a Kosmotras company spokesman told Interfax-AVN.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Boeing&#39;s massive new Delta 4 Heavy rocket lumbered from its seaside pad Tuesday afternoon, beginning a mission designed to prove the vehicle is capable of lofting super-sized military satellites into orbit.