Europe launched the first part of a new space 'data highway' on January 30 that will pave the way for faster than ever monitoring of natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Russia launches European satellite to speed data on disasters
A Russian-built Proton rocket with Russian relay satellite Luch-5V and the Kazakh communication satellite KazSat-3 aboard blasts of from a launch pad in the Russian leased Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on April 28, 2014.
