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HMS Astute

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Launch of the UK military satellite Skynet 5D Onboard Ariane Rocket in French Guiana

A Skynet 5D satellite is launched onboard an Ariane rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, South America. A new satellite which will provide secure military communications for UK Armed Forces was successfully launched. The extra lines of communication will benefit personnel deployed in Afghanistan and other parts of the world, including the Falklands, Cyprus and on ships at sea.

It is the fourth satellite of the Skynet 5 project to be put into space since 2007 under a £4bn Private Finance Initiative (PFI) programme with Astrium, who built the satellite and service providers Astrium Services. The Skynet project sustains approximately 800 jobs between the company’s sites in Stevenage, Portsmouth and Corsham, Wiltshire.

When in space, Skynet 5D will travel at speeds of around 6,200 miles per hour and is expected to cover around 765 million miles during its time in orbit.


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bd popeye

The Last Jedi
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Excellent photos HMS Astue.

A couple of things things though. Most of your recently posted photos are a two or more years old..and some have no captions. Lets remember the captions next time.
 

HMS Astute

Junior Member
@bd popeye

They don't have captions or sources. They are straight from the photo collections hosted on my flickr and other websites. I still have over a thousand photos in my computer which i have to upload on hosting sites, but then again they don't have captions.
 

bd popeye

The Last Jedi
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@bd popeye

They don't have captions or sources. They are straight from the photo collections hosted on my flickr and other websites. I still have over a thousand photos in my computer which i have to upload on hosting sites, but then again they don't have captions.

No problem..post what you want to.
 

HMS Astute

Junior Member
Assembly of "HMS Prince of Wales" begins.

Construction of HMS PRINCE OF WALES, the second of two new aircraft carriers for the UK Royal Navy, has moved forward with the docking of two of the ship’s largest hull sections – Lower Block 02 and Lower Block 04 - at Rosyth.​

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