France launches Ariane rocket, lifting satellites into 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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By Laurent Marot KOUROU, French Guiana  - A European Ariane rocketlaunched a military surveillance satellite on Saturday, thethird in a French-led drive for a European "spy in the sky"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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Russia launched two Russian-Ukrainian Earth probing satellites from the Plesetsk cosmodrome at 14:20, Moscow time, on Friday.
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Four Globalstar telecommunications satellites were launched by a Russian Soyuz rocket shortly after midnight (2000 GMT Saturday) from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the RIA Novosti news agency said.
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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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Arianespace chief Jean-Yves Le Gall explains the significance of the return to flight of Europe's  Ariane 5-ECA rocket.
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India just launched a communications satellite.
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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.
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MERIGNAC, France  - French surgeons performed the   first zero-gravity operation on Wednesday aboard a plane   free-falling to create weightless conditions in what they hope   can be a trial run for surgery on astronauts in space.
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KOUROU, French Guiana  - An Ariane-5 rocket  blasted off from French Guiana on Friday putting into orbit  telecommunications satellites for Africa and North America,  space officials said.
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Europe's most powerful rocket, carrying a payload of precious satellites, soared into space Saturday from its South American base in a successful launch more than two years after its inaugural flight ended in disaster.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  - A Boeing Co. Delta 2  rocket successfully launched a new U.S. Air Force Global  Positioning Satellite into orbit from Florida on Saturday.
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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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MOSCOW. Dec 19 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Space Forces have successfully launched the Kosmos-3M space rocket together with the German Sar-LUPE satellite, spokesman for the forces Alexei Kuznetsov told Interfax-AVN. "The launch was made at 5 p.m.
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Russia launched a new model of booster rocket on Monday following two posptponements, news agencies reported.
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PARIS -- A European rocket roared yesterday into space from a launch pad in South America, placing into orbit a surveillance satellite billed as giving France's military new abilities to spy worldwide.