A demonstrator spacecraft for Europe's proposed Galileo satellite navigation system has launched from Kazakhstan.The Giove-B satellite was taken into space atop a Soyuz rocket which left Earth at 2216 GMT, Saturday.
The demonstrator will test the key technologies which will eventually be built into the 30 operational platforms that form the Galileo network.
These include the atomic clocks which provide the precise timing that underpins all sat-nav applications.
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