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 ...

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 ...

Europe’s fifth and sixth Galileo satellites, which were salvaged from their faulty launch into working orbits, are set to begin broadcasting working navigation signals for test purposes. This ...

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

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 ...

Two fully operational satellites, which were intended to become a part of Europe's Galileo global positioning system, were launched into incorrect orbits this weekend. The Galileo project was ...

PARIS (AP) — 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 ...

Scientists studying data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft have found that Jupiter's moon Amalthea is a pile of icy rubble less dense than water. Scientists expected moons closer to the planet to be ...

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.