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EU's GPS satellite in orbit (AP)

In this picture made available by the European Space Agency, a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the satellite GIOVE-B lifts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 27, 2008. The European Union launched Sunday the second satellite in its much-delayed Galileo navigation system designed to rival the American GPS system. (AP Photo/ESA, HO) NO SALESAP - An experimental satellite for a much-delayed European Union rival to the United States' GPS navigation system blasted into orbit Sunday after a successful launch atop a Russian rocket, the Russian and European space agencies said.


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