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Europe’s first sat-nav spacecraft launched

Published on 21/10/2011

Two Galileo satellites, the European Union's answer to the American GPS system, were launched by a Russian Soyuz rocket from its new base in French Guiana at 7.30am local time today. The European Commission EC has invested billions ...