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Monday, April 14th, 2008

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Arianespace To Launch Satellite For Japanese Operator Japanese company Broadcasting Satellite System Corp., or B-SAT, picked Arianespace to launch the BSAT-3b satellite. The deal was announced today by Jean-Yves Le Gall, Arianespace chairman and CEO, and Kazuo Takenaka, B-SAT president and CEO, during the visit of French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to Tokyo. BSAT-3b will be orbited by an Ariane 5 in the second half of 2010 from the Guiana Space Center, the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, South…

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Congress

Appropriators Offer Skepticism On $350B Defense Reconciliation Plan, ‘Big Risk’ For Key Initiatives

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