The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
The COROT (Convection Rotation and Planetary Transits) spacecraft was launched on December 27, 2006, from a Soyuz 2.1b rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in the country of Kazakhstan.
It was developed and is operated by the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), along with assistance from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, the European Space Agency, Germany and Spain.
Its primary mission is to search for extrasolar planets with short orbital periods and to perform oscillations in stars (what is called asteroseismology).
The spacecraft detected its first exoplanet (COROT-1b) in May 2007.
Scientists in association with the COROT mission recently stated that they have evidence of about eighty newly discovered exoplanets, besides the seven exoplanets already discovered (with information on their discoveries already published in scientific journals).
Some of the systems of a parent star and at least one exoplanet consists of multiple planets, with up to five planets orbiting one star.
Now, its mission has been extended to at least January 2010, because of the spacecraft's continuing ability to operate and extend the goals of its mission.
Additional information on the COROT mission is found on a NASA website.
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