Europe’s first satellite-navigation spacecraft have been sent into orbit.
The two Galileo satellites were launched by a Russian Soyuz rocket from its new base in French Guiana at 07:30 local time (10:30 GMT; 11:30 BST).
The European Commission (EC) is investing billions of euros in its own version of the American GPS system.
It expects Galileo to bring significant returns to EU nations in the form of new businesses that can exploit precise space-borne timing and location data. via BBC
