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US Satellite Successfully Placed In Orbit

Illustration of a Soyuz launch.

 Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Aug 14, 2005
 A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying US telecommunications satellite Galaxy-14 blasted off from Russia's Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan early Sunday after a 24-hour postponement and successfully placed it in orbit.

The blastoff was at 5:28 am (2328 GMT Saturday) and the satellite was placed into geostationary orbit one hour and 37 minutes later.

The postponement was decided upon just 30 seconds before the scheduled launch on Saturday due to difficulties in transmitting information about the parameters of the launcher, said Jean-Yves Le Gall, general director of Starsem, the Euro-Russian subsidiary of Arianespace.

The two-tonne Galaxy-14 was placed in orbit for American operator PanAmsat. The launch, initially scheduled for August 5, was already put off to enable extra checks to be made on the satellite.

Starsem is in charge of selling and exploiting Soyuz on the international market. It is owned by European company Arianespace (15 percent), European aeronautics group EADS (35 percent), Russian federal space agency Roscosmos (25 percent) and Russia's Samara space centre (25 percent).

Galaxy-14, built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, will supply services including digital video programs and high-definition television over the whole of the United States.

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Largest Communications Satellite Ever Built Launched Into Orbit
 Paris, France (SPX) Aug 12, 2005
 Today an Ariane 5G, a 'standard' version of the launcher, successfully launched into orbit the largest communications satellite ever built, Thaicom 4 (IPstar), weighing 6.5 tonnes.
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