GIOVE-B

ESApod, audio and video from space

English - April 23, 2008 13:00 - 4 minutes - 2.33 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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GIOVE-B will be a satellite very close to the satellites planned for the operational Galileo system to be deployed by 2013. In particular it will carry a high precision atomic clock which, once on orbit, will be the most accurate clock ever flying in space. With this launch the European Space Agency and the European Commission are consolidating the foundations of Galileo, the first global civil positioning system.

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