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Space

2009 Busiest Year for Arianespace

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Monday, August 31st, 2009

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Arianespace is keeping up its mission pace as two additional Ariane 5s are now in process at French Guiana, following the vehicle that launched a payload of two telecommunications satellites on 21 August, with a total of seven Ariane 5 missions targeted for 2009 - making it the busiest year of activity since Arianespace's commercial introduction of the workhorse launcher in 1999. The recent launch orbited U.S.-built payloads for two key Arianespace customers in the Asia-Pacific region: JCSAT-12 for Japan's…

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