Tag: Galileo
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Soyuz launches two more Galileo satellites
The Soyuz rocket carrying the 11th and 12th satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation program lifted off at 1151:56 GMT (6:51:56 a.m.; 8:51:56 a.m. local time) from French Guiana. ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Two more satellites joined Europe’s Galileo navigation fleet in orbit Thursday after launch from French Guiana aboard…
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Q&A with Stéphane Israël, chairman and CEO of Arianespace
Become a member to access Spaceflight Now’s bonus content, including more Q&As like this one with space industry leaders, a video archive and other extras. File photo of Stephane Israel, Arianespace’s chairman and CEO. Credit: European Commission Arianespace chief executive Stéphane Israël recently discussed his company’s outlook with Spaceflight Now, touching on the light-class Vega…
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Soyuz booster pointed skyward for Galileo launch
One day after a Soyuz crew transport rolled out to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a similar Russian booster made a comparable journey Monday halfway around the world in tropical French Guiana for liftoff Thursday with two European Galileo navigation satellites. Missing its payload and Fregat upper stage, the Soyuz rocket…
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Photos: Soyuz blasts off from the jungle
A late-night liftoff Thursday lit up the forested shoreline of South America as a Russian-made Soyuz rocket streaked into orbit with two new satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system. The 15-story rocket launched at 0208:10 GMT Friday (10:08:10 p.m. EDT; 11:08:10 p.m. local time) from the Guiana Space Center, adding the ninth and 10th satellites…
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Launch brings Galileo navigation system into double digits
A Soyuz rocket lifted off from French Guiana at 0208:10 GMT Friday (10:08:10 p.m. EDT) with Europe’s next two Galileo navigation satellites. Credit: ESA–Manuel Pedoussaut, 2015 A Russian rocket released two Galileo navigation satellites nearly 15,000 miles above Earth early Friday, adding to a growing fleet giving Europe an independent space-based positioning system tracking automobiles,…
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Live coverage: Soyuz launches to expand Europe’s navigation system
Video provided by Arianespace Mission Status Center Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with two Galileo navigation satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Arianespace Soyuz ST-B conducts another Galileo dual launch
An Arianespace Soyuz ST-B has successfully lofted another pair of Galileo satellites from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Thursday. The launch of the FM05 and FM06 satellites took place on schedule at 02:08 UTC, continuing the growth of Europe’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) constellation. Galileo Launch: Following the launch of four satellites…
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Photos: Two more Galileo navigation satellites primed for flight
The next pair of spacecraft to join Europe’s Galileo navigation system are positioned for liftoff late Thursday aboard a Soyuz rocket. The photos below show the arrival of the satellites in French Guiana in late July from their factory at OHB System in Bremen, Germany, fueling of the craft by technicians in special hazmat suits,…
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Russian rocket erected for this week’s Galileo launch
Photo credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – G. Barbaste The next pair of spacecraft to join Europe’s growing Galileo navigation system, a civilian-run analog to the U.S. military’s Global Positioning System, will be added to the tip of a Russian Soyuz booster overnight Monday after the rocket’s rollout earlier in the day…
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Look back at Friday’s Soyuz launch from the Amazon
Two satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation network lifted off at sunset Friday aboard a Soyuz rocket from a tropical launch pad at the edge of South America’s Amazon rainforest. The 15-story Soyuz rocket fired its kerosene-fueled engines and vaulted away from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana at 6:46 p.m. local time (2146 GMT;…