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Planet finder Corot launches into space
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    • MOSCOW, Dec 27 (AFP) Dec 27, 2006
     A French-made Corot spacecraft designed to search out planets blasted off Wednesday on a Russian rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency said.

    The satellite successfully left on its mission aboard a Soyuz 2-1B rocket, agency spokesman Igor Panarin told AFP.

    The Corot is the latest step in a quest to find planets orbiting other stars, with the ultimate goal being any discovery of another planet fit for human habitation.

    Bearing a 30-centimetre (12-inch) telescope and two cameras, Corot is designed to hunt for "rocky" planets -- the first requirement, along with water in its liquid state and a moderate temperature, for human life.




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