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COPYRIGHT 2006 Asia Pulse Pty Ltd
May 29, 2006, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.
THAICOM 5 SATELLITE SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED INTO ORBIT
NONTHABURI - Shin Satellite Public Company Limited (SET:SHIN) announced that its Thaicom 5 satellite was successfully launched into orbit Sunday morning.
The Ariane 5 ECA rocket, a heavy-duty version of the European Space Agency's (ESA) rocket, blasted off from the Spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, in South America on Saturday and successfully placed Mexico's Satmex 6 and Thailand's Thaicom 5 into preliminary orbits.
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