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Europe Kicks Off Saturday Night With A Rocket Launch

Europeans sure know how to celebrate a Saturday night! While I spent the good part of Happy Hour knocking back shots, our cousins from across the ocean shot a satellite up into space. The Giove-B satellite, a demonstrator that will test key technologies needed in satellite navigation systems, ascended to the heavens at 22:16 GMT. More »

9:30 PM on Sat Apr 26 2008
By Elaine Chow
1,980 views, 8 comments

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Galileo Satellite Positioning System Is a No-Go for Now

Leave it to that nest of fat bureaucrats called the European Union to fix what a consortium of eight European companies have not been able to pull off: Galileo, a former excommunicated astronomer turned global positioning system, is in a "dead-end street". More »

8:52 AM on Tue May 8 2007
By Addy Dugdale
1,612 views, 17 comments