Europe's 'super rocket' to launch
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Europe's "super rocket" which can lift more than one and heavier satellites into orbit is ready for its first trip into space.
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Building blocks falling into place The European Space Agency's (ESA) next big project is a step closer to being launch-ready, as scientists in Germany complete the "mating" of Herschel's two most fundamental modules, the cryostat and the service module.â¦
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The experimental scramjet engine is one that researchers hope will lead to super-high speed flight.
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The European Union urged member states on Tuesday to sign up to schemes to launch work on a new European heavy transport helicopter and next-generation satellite observation system from late 2008.
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Europe's most powerful rocket to date, the Ariane 5-ECA, blasts off from a spaceport in French Guiana.
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Science & environment: The countdown is on for the first regular space tourists to rocket into space
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Finally, it was Europe's turn to take a giant leap into an unexplored world. After decades of running third in space headlines behind the U.S. and Soviet-Russian programs, the 15-country ESA last week captured center stage with the successful landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, after a seven-year voyage.
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NASA has agreed to launch its largest scientific balloons from a site in northern Sweden, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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A European rocket carrying two British and Indian satellites was successfully launched Sunday from South America after a one-day delay due to a technical glitch.
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Europe orders up Sentinel 1, the first bespoke spacecraft for its new global monitoring programme.
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Europe's 20-tonne supply ship for the International Space Station will have its maiden flight on Saturday 8 March.
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PARIS - European aerospace company EADS on Wednesday unveiled a model of a jet designed to take tourists into space, rocketing paying passengers to weightlessness at more than 62 miles above the Earth.
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A European satellite designed to improve weather forecasting has been given a new launch date.
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Tuesday's shuttle launch marks the beginning of an intense period of space activity for Europe.
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An Ariane-5 rocket is set to take off from French Guiana Saturday in a crucial launch for Europe's space program, two years after the costly failure of a first attempted launch.
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Europe's most powerful rocket, carrying a payload of precious satellites, soared into space Saturday from its South American base in a successful launch more than two years after its inaugural flight ended in disaster.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.