LaunchesGalileo L8 (FOC FM07 & FM12-FM14)
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Galileo L8 (FOC FM07 & FM12-FM14)
Ariane 5 ES · Communications
2016Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre
Mission
The Galileo constellation is 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
- Ariane 5 ES
- Orbit
- MEO
- Pad
- Ariane Launch Area 3
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2