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Arianespace and Alenia signed agreement to launch a communications satellite

Rome, Italy - Atlantic Bird 1 in orbit by the end of summer 2002

Thanks to the agreement signed by the French aerospace industry Arianespace and the Italian firm Alenia Spazio, the communications satellite Atlantic Bird 1 will be taken to orbit by the end of this summer. Atlantic Bird 1, which is going to become part of the Eutelsat satellite network, will take off from the aerospace base of Kourou (French Guinea), on board an Ariane-5 rocket propeller. Arianespace...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 30911
Rome, Italy, 07/11/2002 13:06
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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