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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies launched the SES-12 communications satellite to orbit atop a "flight proven" Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, June 4, 2018. The flight lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) located in Florida. SES-12, is designed with wide beams and high throughput beams and will join SES-8 at 95 degrees East to provide video, fixed data and mobility services for government customers across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. SES-12 will operate under the authority of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and will replace and augment the services currently being provided by SES’ NSS-6 satellite. Photos courtesy: Scott Schilke, Michael McCabe
