Galileo: Επαναλειτουργεί το ευρωπαϊκό σύστημα πλοήγησης μέσω δορυφόρου

epa00612633 This picture made available by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday, 13 January 2006, shows an artist's impression of GIOVE-A, the first of ESA's two In-Orbit Verification spacecraft for the Galileo global navigation satellite system, as it deploys its second solar array shortly after launch by a Russian Soyuz/Fregat vehicle, in December 2005. The spacecraft antennas are directed towards the viewer. The GIOVE-A satellite is in good health and started transmitting the first Galileo signals from medium Earth orbit on 12 January. GIOVE-A was placed in orbit (altitude 23,260 km) by a Soyuz-Fregat rocket operated by Starsem on 28 December last from the Baikonur cosmodrome. EPA/ESA HANDOUT NO SALES, NO ARCHIVES