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In accordance with EU’s Gallileo global positioning system first satellite was sent to space from Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz rocket.

With greater accuracy for civilian uses than the American network, it will allow enhanced services such as tracing emergency calls to within a yard of their origin and helping tourists find an ATM in a strange city using a chip inserted into a cellular telephone, the officials said.

Many Europeans see political significance in the project, too: The world’s only civilian-controlled system will give Europe and its partner nations self-sufficiency from the United States, which has warned it could diminish or cut off GPS satellite coverage to countries considered enemies in times of national emergency…

• China wants the ability to destroy GPS satellites when above China
• glonass receivers
• navigation satellite wars
• GPS guide for World Cup fans
• Blusens G01 navigation system with satellite images

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