Delta 4-Heavy and Minotaur 4 rockets successfully launched

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EAVESDROPPING CRAFT HEADS TO SPACE ATOP DELTA 4-HEAVY
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The triple-barreled power of America's biggest unmanned rocket Sunday
launched "the largest satellite in the world" to hear the whispers of
evil. Liftoff of the Delta 4-Heavy booster carrying this reconnaissance
spacecraft for national security occurred on schedule at 5:58 p.m. EST
(2258 GMT) from Cape Canaveral's Complex 37 at the Florida spaceport.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d351/status.html

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http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d351/launch/

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MINOTAUR 4 LAUNCHES TO SEND RESEARCH TO NEW HEIGHTS
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A Minotaur rocket topped with a payload of seven satellites launched
Friday from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska. The booster orbited a
cache of experiments to prove new space capabilities and exercise growing
minds.

http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/stps26/status.html

LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/stps26/101120gallery/

PREVIEW STORY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/stps26/101118preview/


PLANET FROM ANOTHER GALAXY DISCOVERED
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A team of astronomers using ESO's 2.2 metre telescope at the La Silla
Observatory in Chile have detected a hot-jupiter planet like no other,
orbiting a star of extragalactic origin that now finds itself in our own
Milky Way.

http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n1011/19exo/


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