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The £4.4 billion Brussels space fiasco: Now European Union’s bid to create publicly-funded rival to GPS goes wrong as satellites are blasted into…
Sunday, August 24, 2014 12:21
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Two satellites being used in a £4.4bn European project to develop a satellite navigation system which rivals the American GPS network have gone into the wrong orbit.
Arianespace, the company responsible for the launch, said the satellites ‘had been placed on a lower orbit than expected’, after being fired into space yesterday on a Russian-made Soyuz rocket from French Guiana.
The European Space Agency said space officials are now investigating whether the mistake will complicate their efforts to develop the publicly-funded Galileo satellite navigation system …. http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-44-billion-brussels-space-fiasco.html
