ARIANESPACE TO LAUNCH ARGENTINE SATELLITE ARSAT-1

KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 (Bernama) -- Arianespace annouched today that it has
signed a launch service and solutions contract with Argentine operator ARSAT
(Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales Sociedad Anonima) to orbit the
Arsat-1 satellite by mid-2012.

Arsat-1 will be placed into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 or
Soyuz launcher from the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's Spaceport, in French
Guiana, it said in a statement.

"Our selection is the result of an international bid, in which price,
excellence in space transportation and mission success ratio were critical in
our decision," said ARSAT chairman and chief executive officer Pablo Tognetti.

"This latest contract, the ninth we have signed in 2010, is clear
recognition of the quality and competitiveness of our launch service and
solutions," said Arianespace chairman and chief executive officer Jean-Yves Le
Gall.

-- BERNAMA



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