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France launches military satellite

(wasn't Bush just with this guy a few days ago?)

August 12, 2006

Kourou, French Guiana - France launched early on Saturday the military satellite Syracuse 3B from Kourous in French Guiana thereby creating the conditions for faster and more efficient military exercises abroad.

The satellite is to be made available to Germany's military and to the Nato alliance.

The Ariane 5 ECA delivered Japan's JCSAT-10 telecommunications satellite to an altitude of 36 000 kilometres and the European Syracuse 3B secure military relay platform into a geostationary orbit.

President Jacques Chirac said Syracuse "strengthens the autonomy of the military assessment, decision and capacity of France and the European Union to act."

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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=118&art_id=qw1155383641556R131

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