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"ROLL" PREPARES FOR LAUNCH - A Boeing Satellite Systems technician is dwarfed by the massive XM-1, the second of two Boeing 702-model spacecraft to be launched for XM Satellite Radio, Inc., Washington, D.C. The first was launched March 18 aboard a Sea Launch booster. XM's satellites—which are named "Rock" and "Roll"—will together deliver up to 100 channels of digital-quality music, news and information radio programming to XM radios across the United States.


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