27 February
2004: On 27 February 2004, the launch of ESA's Rosetta spacecraft was delayed.
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2002: On 28 February 2002, ESA's Envisat satellite was launched.
Envisat was launched by an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 22:07 hrs Kourou time.
Built by a consortium of 50 companies led by Astrium, Envisat was the successor to ESA's ERS satellites. With an array of ten instruments to monitor land, oceans, atmosphere and ice caps, it provided the most complete set of observations ever achieved, to help scientists understand how changes affect our climate.
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26 February
1966: On 26 February 1966, the first Saturn 1B rocket was launched.
25 February
1616: On 25 February 1616, Galileo renounced his theory that Earth orbits the Sun.
24 February
1968: On 24 February 1968, the journal Nature carried the announcement of the discovery of pulsars.
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