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Arianespace is set for a March 10 mission to place the India’s Insat-4B TV/telecommunications satellite and the U.K.’s Skynet-5A communications spacecraft into orbit, Arianespace announced.

Insat-4B will carry 12 Ku-band and 12 C-band transponders mainly catering to direct-to-home television services.

Skynet is the first in a series of next-generation secure communications satellites for the British armed forces, NATO and a number of other countries. The spacecraft will be operated for the U.K. Ministry of Defense by Paradigm Secure Communications, a commercial organization.

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