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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10479

22 October 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/space
Galileo takes off, finally

Brussels, 21/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - Three - two - one - zero - lift-off. Galileo has been in space since Friday 21 October, when the first two satellites of the new European satellite navigation service were put into orbit from the European launch base of Kourou in French Guiana. The launch was welcomed by the European institutions, which have always supported the European space programme, but it cannot hide the additional costs and the years of delay Galileo built up right until the very...

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