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Arianespace will launch the Eutelsat 172B satellite in...

Arianespace will launch the Eutelsat 172B satellite in 2017. The satellite will have a multibeam payload covering the Asia-Pacific region, “designed specially to support in-flight connectivity services aboard airliners,” Arianespace said Thursday in a news release. It will be launched…

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on the Ariane 5 launch vehicle and it will carry C- and Ku-band payloads and a multibeam Ku-band payload to support in-flight broadband services, it said.