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Article: 2nd LD: EP gives final okay to Galileo satellite navigation system
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- April 23, 2008
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2nd LD: EP gives final okay to Galileo satellite navigation
system
STRASBOURG, France, April 23 (Xinhua) -- The European Parliament
(EP) gave its final approval Wednesday to the European satellite
navigation system Galileo.
It was adopted by a vote of 607-36 with 8 abstentions at the
plenary session of the EP.
The 30-satellite project, at a cost of 3.4 billion euros, is
expected to be operational by 2013. To date only one Galileo
satellite is in space. A second experimental satellite will be
launched from Kazakhstan on April 27.
"Galileo will be the first common European infrastructure," said
parliament's rapporteur Etelka Barsi-Pataky from Hungary.
"Galileo and EGNOS are made-in-Europe ...