It was designed to climb about 40km (25 miles) into the sky during the powered phase of its two-minute flight.

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Calling from Ethiopia, where he was attending a mobile operators conference, Veremis said that what he sees in Africa and in other developing market is a leapfrog past the desktop phase that powered American companies like Dell and Gateway in the 1990s.

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