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SpaceX Successfully Launches SES-8

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Friday, December 13th, 2013

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) on Dec. 3 successfully launched the SES-8 telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 5:41 p.m. EST, according to a company statement. Approximately 185 seconds into flight, the Falcon 9 second stage’s single Merlin vacuum engine ignited to begin a five-minute, 20-second burn that delivered the satellite into its parking orbit. Eighteen minutes after injection into the parking orbit, the second stage engine relit…

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