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Come with us to the land of launchers …

2 november 2010

Our daily lives are full of benefits brought to us by satellite – TV, telecommunications, weather forecasts, satnav … Can you imagine how we would manage without them? All these things are based on continuous real-time data provided by satellites. But in order to exploit this wealth of cutting-edge technology, we first have to be able to create the vehicle that can get the satellites up into space and correctly position them in their operational orbit.

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