Kourou Launch Facility Needed To Meet Demand for Medium-Size Satellites

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Workers are installing equipment and systems at Europe’s new Soyuz launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana, and hope to have the facility ready by mid-2009. The pad is needed to meet demand for medium-size communications and Earth-observation satellites and to provide a backup for the Ariane 5 heavy...

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