Second Galileo test satellite launched successfully

Giove-B, the second test satellite for the European satellite navigation system Galileo, was launched at 4am on Monday aboard a Russian rocket departing from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed that the two solar panels powering the satellite had deployed without incident and were fully operational by 04:28 BST. More

(Source: Heise Online - Apr 29)