{"id":87824,"date":"2009-12-04T20:41:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T12:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thales-completes-galileo-platform-integration-testing\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:47:00","slug":"thales-completes-galileo-platform-integration-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thales-completes-galileo-platform-integration-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales Completes Galileo Platform Integration Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-04-09] <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> has completed platform integration testing on the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong>\u2019s (ESA) Galileo satellites, Thales Alenia Space announced Dec. 3. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Galileo platform is now in functional testing with delivery of the engineering model payload from Astrium U.K. expected in December.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The proto-flight and three flight model satellites also were integrated and tested at Thales Alenia Space\u2019s facilities in Rome. They will be carried into orbit in pairs by <strong>Arianespace<\/strong> on a Soyuz ST-B \/ Fregat rocket. The first two Galileo launches are scheduled for late 2010 and early 2011.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">EU Launches Free Satellite Navigation Network<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tOctober 5, 2009<br \/>\n[10-05-09] The European Union (EU) has launched Egnos, a free satellite navigation network based on an enhanced version of the U.S. global positioning system (GPS), the EU announced Oct. 2. <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Reynald Seznec CEO, Thales Alenia Space<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tVia Satellite&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJuly 1, 2009<br \/>\nReynald Seznec succeeded Pascale Sourisse as CEO of Thales Alenia Space in May 2008, taking over a company with a strong backlog that included the next-generation constellation for Globalstar. He quickly added an order from O3b to Thales projects\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Arianespace To Launch Twin Galileo Navigation Satellites Next Year on Soyuz<\/b> \t\t \t\t\t&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSMD Report&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJune 22, 2009<br \/>\nTwo Arianespace-led Russian Soyuz spacecraft each will launch two Galileo navigational satellites next year two begin construction of the navigational constellation, the company announced. The European Space Agency aims to build a full fleet of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-04-09] Thales Alenia Space has completed platform integration testing on the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Galileo satellites, Thales Alenia Space announced Dec. 3. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Galileo platform is now in functional testing with delivery of the engineering model payload from Astrium U.K. expected in December. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The proto-flight and three flight model satellites also were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-87824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87824"}],"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=87824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87998,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87824\/revisions\/87998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}