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Euro GPS 'accurate to below 10cm'

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The first two European satellites are to be launched from French Guinea as part of the Galileo project, the European version of GPS.

Dr Martyn Thomas of the Royal Academy of Engineering explains how the system will make sat nav much quicker and more accurate.


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