Arianespace has successfully launched satellites 19, 20, 21 and 22 in the Galileo constellation, using an Ariane 5 heavy launcher on behalf of the European Commission (DG GROW) and under a contract ...

PARIS—A Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket on May 24 successfully placed two European Galileo positioning, navigation and timing satellites into medium-Earth orbit – the 13 th and 14 th in a series of ...

PARIS – European space officials say they're investigating whether the inaccurate deployment of two satellites will complicate their efforts to develop a new Galileo satellite navigation system that ...

The fifth Galileo navigation satellite, one of two left in the wrong orbit this summer, will make a series of maneuvers this month as a prelude to its health being confirmed. The aim is to raise the ...

An announcement from ESA on November 4 stated "Europe’s first two Galileo IOV satellites have reached their final operating orbits, opening the way for activating and testing their navigation payloads ...

A launch malfunction has blasted the first two fully operational satellites for Europe's global-positioning Galileo project into incorrect orbits, roughly 2,000 miles off their intended positions.

Paris, Aug 23 (EFE).Paris, Aug 23 (EFE). — The two satellites of the European navigation system Galileo, carried into space by a Soyuz spacecraft, show an anomaly in their orbits whose implications ...

Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science. This article is more than 10 years old. On Friday, August 22, two European Space Agency Galileo satellites were injected into ...

A launch malfunction has blasted the first two fully operational satellites for Europe's global-positioning Galileo project into incorrect orbits, roughly 2,000 miles off their intended positions.