Asteroids are divided into different groups such as Apollo, Aten, or Amor, based on the type of orbit they have.

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Some space experts have said that any manned Mars mission using existing rockets probably would need to have a capsule dock with some type of booster in orbit.

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With all three vehicles, Arianespace, the company that runs Kourou, will now be able to offer satellite operators a ride for any type of spacecraft to all kinds of orbit - from the low, pole-crossing orbits used by Earth observation missions, to the high, geostationary locations favoured by big telecommunications platforms.

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The second piece of evidence pointing to is the eccentric orbit of an existing planet around the star, which is in an orbit not normally expected in this type of system.

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Therefore, it's likely these stars still have material in orbit around them in the form of terrestrial-type bodies.

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But here on the Showstoppers floor, we came across the type of gadget that gets us positively giddy: the Puzzlebox Orbit.

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