ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br /> <br />Two more Galileo satellites lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Friday (August 22) aboard a Soyuz rocket.<br /> <br />The satellites are the fifth and sixth in the Galileo network which will provide Europe with its own global navigation satellite system (GPS) under civilian control.<br /> <br />According to the European Space Agency (ESA), the network will deliver real-time positional accuracy down to the metre range, making it suitable for safety-critical applications such as guiding cars, running trains and landing aircraft.<br /> <br />The system is inter-operable with U.S. and Russian global satellite navigation systems.<br /> <br />The newly launched satellites joined four Galileo satellites already in orbit, launched in October 2011 and October 2012. The fully deployed system consists of 30 satellites.<br /> <br />This first quartet were 'In-Orbit Validation' satellites, serving to demonstrate the Galileo system would function as planned.
