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SpaceX Successfully Launches Thaicom-6 Communications Satellite

Pat Host

Monday, January 6th, 2014

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SpaceX Successfully Launches Thaicom-6 Communications Satellite

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Monday successfully launched the Orbital Sciences [ORB]-built Thaicom-6 satellite on one of its Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The launch was critical as it could count toward one of the three qualification flights needed to certify the Flacon 9 to fly national security space missions for the Air Force under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program, according to company spokeswoman Hannah Post. The EELV program is designed to create…

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