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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9066

11 November 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/galileo
First Galileo test satellite to be launched on 28 December

Brussels, 10/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - The in-orbit testing phase of Galileo, Europe's satellite navigation system, will begin in December, with the first demonstrator spacecraft flying from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on a Soyuz rocket on 28 December. The satellite, known as Giove-A (Galileo In Orbit Validation Element, 'Giove' is Italian for the planet Jupiter), is currently undergoing final preparations at the European Space Agency's technical centre, ESTEC, at Noordwijk in the Netherlands,...

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