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Photos: Sending Galileo into orbit
Getting a new satellite off the ground

By Steve Ranger

Published: Thursday 27 July 2006

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