In addition to its role as a central player in European Space Agency (ESA) programs, the French space agency, CNES, expects to continue building its own space-science satellites, and CNES officials said Nov. 16 the Corot astronomy satellite could be a model for those future missions. Corot, scheduled for launch in late 2006 aboard the inaugural flight of an upgraded version of the Russian Soyuz rocket, is designed to examine the seismology of stars and to look for Earthlike planets around stars.
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