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Sea Launch Receives SICRAL 1B Satellite For Launch In January

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Monday, November 17th, 2008

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Sea Launch took delivery of the SICRAL 1B communications satellite at the payload processing facility at the Sea Launch home port in the Port of Long Beach. With additional arrivals this month of associated hardware and personnel, Sea Launch is prepared to boost the satellite to space in January. Sea Launch will be inserting the SICRAL 1B communications satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit for Telespazio, a Thales/Finmeccanica company, based in Rome. A contract was signed with Telespazio last year. SICRAL…

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