November 2005 in Science - November 9, 2005

November 9, 2005

  • The Venus Express spacecraft is successfully launched at 33:33 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. (BBC)
  • The consortium building the Galileo positioning system, names the first demonstrator satellite GIOVE A and plans to launch it in December 2005. (BBC) (ESA)

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