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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10669

3 August 2012
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) space
Trend developing with fourth launch of Ariane 5 in 2012

Brussels, 02/08/2012 (Agence Europe) - European rocket Ariane 5 is due to launch two communications satellites in the night of Thursday 2 to Friday 3 August from the base at Kourou in French Guiana. This will be the fourth Ariane 5 launch from Kourou this year, and, it is hoped, the 50th trouble-free launch since 2003, after the failure in December 2002. The future of Ariane 5 will have to be rethought, however, so that the European launcher retains its top spot in a very tight global market...