{"id":73278,"date":"2015-09-11T21:13:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/galileo-launch-grows-constellation-to-10-satellites\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T21:13:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:13:55","slug":"galileo-launch-grows-constellation-to-10-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/galileo-launch-grows-constellation-to-10-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Galileo Launch Grows Constellation to 10 Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-11-2015] Two Full Operational Capability (FOC) Galileo satellites for Europe\u2019s Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) launched Sept. 10 aboard an <b>Arianespace<\/b> Soyuz rocket. Galileo 9 and 10, also known as Alba and Oriana, entered their target orbit close to 23,500-km altitude approximately 3 hours and 48 minutes after liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>Two further Galileo satellites are scheduled for launch by end of this year. <b>OHB<\/b> of Germany is building the satellites, with <b>Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. <\/b>(SSTL)<b> <\/b>in the U.K. providing the navigation payloads. The completed constellation will consist of 30 satellites and their associated ground infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>For Arianespace, the mission was number eight of a planned 12 for the year, which would be a new record. The launch company is set to launch two more satellites with Soyuz this year, before switching to the Ariane 5 rocket in 2016 with a launch carrying four satellites. One more Soyuz and two more Ariane 5s will continue Galileo launches in 2017 to 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deployment of Europe\u2019s Galileo system is rapidly gathering pace\u201d, said Johann-Dietrich Woerner, director general of ESA. \u201cBy steadily boosting the number of satellites in space, together with new stations on the ground across the world, Galileo will soon have a global reach. The day of Galileo\u2019s full operational capability is approaching.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-11-2015] Two Full Operational Capability (FOC) Galileo satellites for Europe\u2019s Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) launched Sept. 10 aboard an Arianespace Soyuz rocket. Galileo 9 and 10, also known as Alba and Oriana, entered their target orbit close to 23,500-km altitude approximately 3 hours and 48 minutes after liftoff. Two further Galileo satellites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}