Artist's view of a Galileo satellite. Crédits : ESA-J. HuartFrom the BBC News:
A test spacecraft for Europe's future satellite-navigation system has been rocked by a surge of space radiation.
The incident forced the Giove-B satellite to adopt a "safe mode" for two weeks in which only essential power systems were kept running.
European Space Agency (Esa) engineers have brought the satellite back up and are now studying what happened.
Giove-B carries the technologies that will be incorporated into the Galileo network when it becomes operational.
These include the atomic clocks which provide the precise timing that underpins all sat-nav applications.
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