Re: EU Launches 1st Galileo Program Satellite
Ref: http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?menu=1&id_issue=11442444
MOSCOW. Dec 28 (Interfax) - The first signals have been received from
a Galileo navigation spacecraft launched from Russia's Baikonur space
center in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, head of the European Space Agency
(ESA) mission in Moscow Alain-Fournier Sicre told Interfax by telephone
from Baikonur.
"We've got good news. Galileo has been placed on a predetermined orbit,
and the first signals have been received," Sicre said.
An ESA contractor will soon take control of the satellite, he said.
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