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Corot space mission ready to search out new planets and map the interior of stars

The Corot mission is scheduled for launch on Dec. 27 2006, from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Corot will detect planets orbiting around other stars and probe the secrets of stellar interiors as never before.

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1. COROT and the new chapter of planetary searches
   11-14-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
   The launch of COROT on 21 December 2006 is a long awaited event in the quest to find planets beyond our Solar System. Searching from above the Earth's atmosphere, COROT – the CNES project with ESA participation - will be the first space mission specifically dedicated to the search for extrasolar planets.
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4. Europe looks forward to COROT launch
   12-19-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
   ESA PR 47-2006. On 27 December, COROT is to be launched into space on a unique astronomy mission: its twin goals are to detect exoplanets orbiting around other stars and to probe the mysteries of stellar interiors as never before. COROT is a French national space agency (CNES)-led mission to which the European Space Agency and European partners are adding a particularly strong international flavour.
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