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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Europe launches a project to build a super-brilliant X-ray laser to probe the atomic structure of materials.
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Europe is set for a remarkably busy period in space as it prepares to send a lab, a cargo truck and other gear to the space station.
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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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European launchers have come to be associated with French Guiana - powerful large rockets that lift-off from the steamy-hot equatorial base at Kourou.
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The enhanced version of Europe's Ariane 5 rocket will  not be launched until late January to give managers more time to verify its  flight-worthiness, Arianespace Chief Executive Officer Jean-Yves Le Gall said  Nov. 18. The decision clears the way for a Dec. 10 launch of a standard-version  Ariane 5 carrying observation and signals-intelligence satellites for the French  Defense Ministry.
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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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France launched an Ariane rocket on December 18, lifting into orbit the new-generation military satellite Helios II A and six microsatellites for different scientific purposes, said reports reaching Kourou, French Guiana.
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[World News]: Paris, Dec 19 : France has launched an Ariane rocket from Kourou in French Guiana, placing into orbit a new-generation military satellite Helios II A. The launch Saturday also placed in orbit
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The European Space Agency (ESA) on Tuesday said it expected to carry out the maiden launch of a robot supply ship to the orbital space station between February 22 and March 8 or 9.
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The &#36;10 million competition to send a private manned rocket into space started looking more like a race Thursday, when a Canadian team announced plans to launch its rocket three days after an American group intends to begin qualifying for the Ansari X prize.
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Parallel to Orion Plans are underway to build a European alternative to the US's shuttle replacement Orion.â¦
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The European space agency is celebrating the successful launch of its probe to Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan. The Huygens probe was launched from the NASA spacecraft Cassini which was orbiting Saturn and is due to reach Titan in mid-January.
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The European Space Agency has approved the September launch of the second Young Engineers Satellite, or YES2, experiment.
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PACKING a revolutionary engine that one day may send a robot scout into deep space, Europe&#39;s first mission to the Moon enters a key phase on Monday when the cube-shaped spacecraft is injected into lunar orbit.
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Getting a closer look at the stars may soon stop being the privilege of a few select billionaires, with the space arm of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company saying Wednesday it plans to have a space tourist plane in operation by 2012.
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By David McHugh< Associated Press  DARMSTADT, Germany - Europe's first spacecraft to the moon smashed into a volcanic plain as planned Sunday, signaling in a bright flash the end of a successful mission to test a new propulsion system and navigation technology for flights to other planets.