Ariane 44LP launches Intelsat 707 after bolts replaced

Europe's Arianespace consortium launched an Intelsat telecommunications satellite toward geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic early yesterday, a flight that should ease Intelsat's loss of a similar satellite when a Chinese Long March rocket failed on launch last month. Liftoff of the Ariane 44LP...

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