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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Seventeen years and more than 10 billion euros ($11 billion) later, Europe's Galileo satnav system is set to go live on Thursday, promising to outperform US and
 Russian rivals while boosting regional self-reliance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Initial services, free to use worldwide, will be available only on smartphones and navigation boxes already fitted with Galileo-compatible microchips.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Read more</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
<span lang="EN-ZA">at <a href="http://phys.org/news/2016-12-europe-satnav-galileo-due.html">
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-europe-satnav-galileo-due.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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