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Lockheed To Build Comms Satellite For Japanese Firm; Launch In 2013

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Monday, April 20th, 2009

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Arianespace To Launch Satellite Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] will build a communications satellite for a Japanese firm, and Arianespace will launch it into orbit. Lockheed will provide JCSAT-13 for SKY Perfect JSAT Corp., to be launched in 2013. SKY Perfect also chose Arianespace to launch the spacecraft. The JCSAT-13 contract is the 27th that Arianespace has won in Japan out of 36 commercial contracts open to competition, according to Arianespace. JCSAT-13 will be launched by an Ariane 5 heavy lifter…

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