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Herschel and Planck launch postponed

20 April 2009

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Ariane 5 is moved to the launch zone at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of the V185 launch on a flight to orbit the Superbird-7 and AMC-21 telecommunications satellite payloads.

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