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July 24, 2013

Alphasat Wears Its Color For Alphabus
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 23, 2013
It is a tradition for satellite passengers on Arianespace missions to be accompanied by their logos on a launch vehicle's payload fairing during the first minutes of flight - and this week's Ariane 5 mission with Alphasat and INSAT-3D is no exception. During recent activity in the Spaceport's Final Assembly Building for Ariane 5, a decal with the logo for Inmarsat - which will operate the Alphasat spacecraft once in orbit - was positioned on the fairing's upper portion. Below it is a horizon ... read more

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