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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Symphonie-A, a Franco-German communications satellite scheduled for launch by KSC's Unmanned Launch Operations Directorate no earlier than Dec. 17, was uncrated at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station today. The spacecraft is undergoing checkout at Hangar S at CCAFS. Launch is scheduled atop a Delta rocket from Complex 17-B. Photo credit: NASA