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ESA's most advanced navigation satellite launched
 
27 April 2008

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Soyuz-Fregat launch vehicle lifts off
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The Soyuz-Fregat launch vehicle carrying GIOVE-B, the second of ESA's two Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element demonstrators for the Galileo global navigation satellite system, lifts off from launch complex at the Baikonour spaceport, Kazakhstan, on April 27, 2008.

Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja 2008
 
 
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