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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10490

8 November 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/space
Galileo - France hands over to Germany

Brussels, 07/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - Franco-German cooperation is extending into space. Control of the first two Galileo satellites was transferred from French hands at the French Space Agency centre in Toulouse to German hands in the Galileo control centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, on Thursday 3 November. The first two satellites of the new European satellite navigation system had to complete the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP), roughly two weeks after their launch on Friday 21 October,...

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