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Sea Launch Plans Newest Satellite Launch

The DIRECTV Group has scheduled a late April launch for a satellite aboard a Sea Launch rocket.

Sea Launch, which launches satellites into orbit from a mobile sea-going platform near the equator, is headquartered in Long Beach.

The Boeing-built Spaceway F1 satellite is one of four that DIRECTV has scheduled for launch over the next three years in a major expansion of its programming capacity.

The expansion will enable DIRECTV to deliver more than 1,500 local and national high-definition channels and other advanced television programming services to consumers nationwide by 2007.

In February, Sea Launch successfully delivered XM Satellite Radio’s XM-3 satellite to orbit from its ocean-based platform on the Equator, in its first mission of the 2005 manifest. Early data indicate the spacecraft is in excellent condition.

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