The World - News from June 6, 1989
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Two communications satellites were lifted into orbit in the fourth of nine space flights planned by the European consortium Arianespace. An upgraded version of the Ariane 4, Europe’s most powerful rocket, carried the double payload aloft to complete the European Space Agency’s 13th successful mission. The three-stage, 192-foot-long rocket, launched from the agency’s jungle complex in French Guiana, delivered Japan’s $100-million Superbird-A communications satellite and a West German television-relay station known as DFS Kopernikus 1 into orbit.
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