European navigation satellites launched

kourou - Two new European satellites on Tuesday launched from the launch site in French Guiana. It is a thirteenth and fourteenth probe which will form part of the Galileo global navigation network. Which will eventually consist of 24 satellites.

Each satellite carries the name of a child from a European country. The machines Tuesday entered the room called Daniele (for a child from Lithuania) and Alizee (Luxembourg). During the year, the 'Dutch' satellite Tijmen the air. The satellites depend on more than 22 000 km from Earth.