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    • LISBON (AFP) Nov 26, 2005
     Portugal will monitor rocket launches for the European Space Agency under an agreement signed Saturday.

    A mobile monitoring station will be set up on the Azores island of Santa Maria in the Atlantic from 2007, Portuguese science and technology minister, Mariano Gago, said after signing the agreement.

    The position of the station will allow scientists to monitor the path of rockets leaving the ESA launch site at Kourou in French Guiana bound for the International Space Station.

    Portugal became a member of the ESA five years ago.




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