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Date: Oct 18 11:28 2010

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The Soyuz vehicle with Globalstar's initial cluster of six second-generation satellites is now on Launch Pad #6 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, where it is being readied for liftoff on October 19 in an Arianespace mission performed by its Starsem affiliate. This improved version of Russia's long-operating medium-lift workhouse rolled out in the morning hours today at the Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and was raised into position on the launch pad by its rail car transporter/erector. Next steps in the mission's preparations will include the check-out and countdown rehearsal for Soyuz' lower three stages, a countdown rehearsal for its payload of six Globalstar spacecraft and the launcher's Fregat upper stage, followed by the final chronology leading to the launch at 11:10 p.m. local time on Tuesday. Read more __________________

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Date: Oct 16 10:02 2010

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An Arianespace Soyuz rocket with a a Fregat upper stage is scheduled to launch a Globalstar mobile communications satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 17:10 GMT, 19th October, 2010. __________________

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