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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 29942493" data-attributes="member: 562115">Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully blasted off for the first time on Tuesday, releasing satellites into orbit and restoring the continent's independent access to space.European space efforts have suffered a series of blows, including four years of delays to Ariane 6, that have robbed the continent of its own way to launch missions into space for the past year.But with the successful inaugural flight of Europe's most powerful rocket yet, European space chiefs were keen to move on from recent setbacks."It's a historic day for Europe," European Space Agency head Josef Aschbacher said."Europe is back," announced Philippe Baptiste, head of France's CNES space agency.[MEDIA=youtube]OnSZ6guSULY[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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