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    • PARIS (AFP) Nov 13, 2005
     The blast-off of an Ariane-5 ECA launcher with a Spaceway 2 and a Telkom 2 satellite, scheduled for overnight Saturday, has been postponed, European group Arianespace said.

    "Following a problem encountered during final preparations of the launcher, Arianespace has decided to postpone the Ariane 5 ECA mission scheduled for this evening," the group said in an online statement.

    "A new date will be announced in the next few hours," it added.

    The mission was initially scheduled for June 24 but the launch has already been postponed twice.

    Satellite television firm DirecTV's Spaceway 2 weighs 6.1 tonnes at lift-off and is to enable the company to provide live coverage in the United States.

    Telkom 2, which weighs in at nearly two tonnes, is owned by Indonesian company PT Telkom Indonesia.

    Ariane 5 ECA rockets are designed to carry a payload of almost 10 tonnes.




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