LaunchesGalileo L3 (FOC FM01-FM02)
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Galileo L3 (FOC FM01-FM02)
Soyuz STB · Navigation
2014Soyuz Launch Complex, Guiana Space Centre
Mission
These are the first two Full Operational Capability satellites of the Galileo constellation, ESA's satellite navigation system and is expected to be completed by 2020. Galileo will provide Europe with an alternative to the American GPS and Russian GLONASS constellations, but will be interoperable with both systems.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- Arianespace
- Rocket
- Soyuz STB
- Orbit
- MEO
- Pad
- Soyuz Launch Complex
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2