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Communications satellite launched into space
The Associated PressCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.An unmanned Delta IV rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening. The satellite was the fifth Wideband Global satcom spacecraft to be launched.The satellite, which is being sent into an orbit that follows the earth's rotation 22,000 miles above the equator, w
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An unmanned Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday to put a multi-use, broadband communications satellite into orbit for the U.S. military.
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