Two satellites being used in a £4.4bn European project to develop a satellite navigation system which rivals the American GPS network have gone into the wrong orbit.
Arianespace, the company responsible for the launch, said the satellites ‘had been placed on a lower orbit than expected’, after being fired into space yesterday on a Russian-made Soyuz rocket from French Guiana.
The European Space Agency said space officials are now investigating whether the mistake will complicate their efforts to develop the publicly-funded Galileo satellite navigation system .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk
