MOSCOW (Reuters) - The European Union launched its first Galileo navigation satellite on Wednesday, moving to challenge the United States' Global Positioning System (GPS).
Russian space agency Roskosmos said the 600 kg satellite named Giove-A (Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element) went into its orbit 23,000 km from the earth after its launch on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the middle of Kazakhstan's steppe.
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