Analysis: Europe outlines the future in space

Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:30 am   

Europe's presence in space has been increasingly visible in recent years. To cite a recent example, the 16 May launch of NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour carried the biggest, most ambitious science payload ever delivered to the International Space Station, the European Space Agency-built alpha magnetic spectrometer - a 6.9t particle detector physicists hope will help unravel the secrets of so-called "dark matter".

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