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Ariane 5 To Launch JCSAT-13 Satellite In 2013

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Monday, May 11th, 2009

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SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. hired Arianespace to provide an Ariane 5 heavy lifter rocket to launch the JCSAT-13 communications satellite in 2013, Arianespace announced. The JCSAT-13 contract is the 27th that Arianespace has won in Japan out of 36 commercial contracts open to competition, according to the company. JCSAT-13 will be launched by an Ariane 5 in 2013 from the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, South America. Built by Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] in Newtown, Pa., it…

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