Summary
A ROCKET due to blast off this morning carrying a British-built satellite will mark the start of a new kind of space race between Europe and America.
The Russian Soyuz craft, scheduled to lift off from a Kazakhstan spaceport at 5am, is the first step in Pounds 2.6billion challenge to the Americans' Global Positioning Satellite system.See the full content of this document
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Blast Off in the Sat-Nav Challenge to America
The system uses a network of satellites to send radio signals to Earth, allowing anyone with a receiver to pinpoint...
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