Europe's satellite launch is postponed

The orbital flight of two European-built satellite satellites could not take place today due to a technical problem.

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Soyuz rocket in aerospace airport in Guiana, territory
French overseas in South America, on October 20.

BBC said the European Space Agency (ESA) decided to postpone the launch of two satellite satellites after engineers discovered a technical error in the process of putting fuel into the Soyuz rocket. Arianespace, the company that provides Soyuz boosters, announced the launch will be postponed for at least 24 hours.

The launch of European positioning satellites is carried out at the aerospace airport in Sinnamary City, Guiana. Located in South America, Guiana is the overseas territory of France.

So far Soyuz missiles have only pushed satellites and spacecraft in Russia and Kazakhstan. This is the first time it works outside the former Soviet Union.

The remaining 28 artificial satellites in Galileo global positioning system will be launched in the next few years. The total value of 30 satellites is about 7.2 billion USD. As planned, Galileo will start offering some services in 2014.

Compared to the US Global Positioning System (GPS), Galileo Global Positioning System of Europe is equipped with more accurate atomic clocks. Atomic clocks are considered 'hearts' of all satellite navigation systems. Theoretically, Galileo's data will be more accurate than GPS. GPS errors can be up to 10m, while Galileo's error will be only one meter or less.