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Europe Spaceworthy Again

Posted by michael on from the watch-out-for-patriot-missiles dept.

Soft writes "After last february's retirement of the Ariane 4 and last year's failure of the uprated Ariane 5 EC-A, an Ariane 5G ("generic") successfully launched two communications satellites tonight. Stories at SpaceflightNow and the BBC. Atlas, Delta, watch out, we're still game!"

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  1. I've been waiting to launch Europe into space by Rares+Marian · · Score: 2, Funny

    Reasons:

    1. Bunch of ingrates
    2. Tony Blair; there's only room for one GWB in this world
    3. Trendy electronic music, wait is Aphex Twin from Europe? Damn!

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