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Science 27 April 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5824, p. 529
DOI: 10.1126/science.316.5824.529d
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NEW DELHI--India entered the fiercely competitive commercial space market with a bang on 23 April with the launch of an Italian astronomy satellite. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is muscling in on a multibillion-dollar business that has been the exclusive domain of rocket efforts in Europe, China, Russia, and the United States. ISRO is trumpeting its cost advantage: It charged Italy about $11 million, a competitive price given the launch location close to the equator. Italy's AGILE craft will study, among other things, gamma ray bursts and dark matter. ISRO chair G. Madhavan Nair called AGILE's launch a "historic moment."




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