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Photos: Sending Galileo into orbit

Getting a new satellite off the ground

Tags: satellite navigation

By Steve Ranger

Published: 27 July 2006 09:00 BST


Galileo is the European satellite-based navigation system currently being developed.

Here's the Giove-A satellite on its Soyuz launcher on pad six at Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan. This satellite was the first part of the Galileo project to launch in December last year.

Photo credit: ESA


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