PARIS — Engineers will complete a series of minor adjustments on Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket to raise its payload-carrying capacity to about 9,200 kilograms to geostationary transfer orbit — compared to around 8,900 kilograms currently — by the end of 2010, the chief executive of launch services provider Arianespace said.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews.