The company already has two scaled-down versions in orbit.

ECONOMIST: The Americans may still go to the moon before the Chinese

KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) -- Western Europe's 113th Ariane rocket lifted two communications satellites into orbit for U.S.-based operators after a successful launch from equatorial French Guiana on Wednesday.

CNN: Ariane rocket orbits U.S. communications satellites

This 1, 000-kilogram spacecraft will be similar to the two French Pleiades satellites now in orbit, with a 70-centimeter ground resolution in black and white and 2.8 meters in color.

MSN: Chinese rocket lofts Turkish Earth observation satellite

Alongside the HTC-made handset are an altitude and orbit control system, two propulsion setups and a Linux-based computer with a "high-speed" processor.

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This morning Cape Canaveral launch ops sent into orbit the Falcon 9, a two-stage vehicle designed by the Elon Musk-backed firm SpaceX.

FORBES: SpaceX Gets Kudos For Its Rocket Launch, You Get A Gallery Of Great NASA Publicity Photos

South Korea's first launch of the two-stage KSLV-1, in August last year, failed to place its satellite payload into the proper orbit.

BBC: South Korea rocket 'explodes' moments after take-off

Two of the planets (Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f) orbit a K2 dwarf estimated to be around 7 billion years old.

ENGADGET: NASA's Kepler discovers three potentially habitable planets

The 44-metre PSLV rocket hurled into polar orbit TES and two tiny satellites, one from European Space Agency and the other from Germany.

BBC: India's spy satellite boost

Lockheed Martin's original SBIRS contract includes HEO payloads, two geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellites, as well as ground-based assets to receive and process the infrared data.

ENGADGET: First piece of SBIRS missile defense system launched, not shot down

It has two old satellites in orbit that are likely to become targets for a future de-orbiting exercise.

BBC: 'Urgent need' to remove space debris