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The launch of a satellite of the European global positioning system Galileo from the Baikonur cosmodrome has been put off until the spring of 2007.

The launch of the GIOVE-B satellite has been postponed for technical reasons.
The satellite was originally to be launched in the spring of 2006, but the flight was postponed for November.
Like the first satellite GIOVE-A of the Galileo system, GIOVE-B is to be launched from Baikonur on the Russian booster rocket Soyuz-FG with a Frigate propulsion unit.
The satellites GIOVE-A and GIOVE-B are intended for tests of several newest technologies of the future navigation satellite system Galileo.
The European Commission puts costs of the development and deployment of the system, including the manufacture and launch of 30 satellites and preparation of ground stations, at 3.8 billion euro.
The European Space Agency plans checking the performance of the Galileo system on four satellites and launching all 30 craft by 2010.

Source Tass