ESA's most advanced navigation satellite launched


Soyuz-Fregat launch vehicle lifts off
 
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.



Release date: 21 July 2009