Europe's Vega Rocket Launches Earth-watching Satellite for Kazakhstan

Friday, May 2, 2014 - 12:00 in Astronomy & Space

A lightweight Vega launcher raced into space from French Guiana on Tuesday night (April 29), boosting a European-built satellite into a 466-mile-high polar orbit with a high-resolution telescope to survey cities, natural resources, and disasters for Kazak

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