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Stockholm, April 26 (IANS) A Swedish research rocket veered off its planned course and instead landed in Norway, local media reported. The nine-metre-long rocket was launched from Esrange Space Centre, approximately 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, reports Xinhua news agency. In a report on Tuesday, Sweden's Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper reported that after reaching an altitude of 250 km, where zero-gravity experiments were carried out, it landed 40 km northwest of the planned landing site. Esrange Space Center launched an investigation into the incident and initiated work to retrieve the payload from the landing site approximately 15 km across…