Galileo FM3 Fueling (credit: ESA). A pair of Galileo satellites are now fully fueled and mated together atop the upper stage that will haul them most of the way up to their final orbit. The launch is ...
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GPS III SATELLITE, artist’s rendering, courtesy Lockheed Martin. Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin successfully completed the first launch readiness exercise for the U.S. Air Force’s next-gene...
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On September 6, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) inaugurated its new premises in Prague, Czech Republic, in the presence of Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani, in charge of Industry and Enterpris...
Read More →News courtesy of CANSPACE listserv. Launch dates this fall for GNSS satellites are as follows, according to various sources: Compass M2 and M5: September 18, 18:12 UTC (speculative); Compass G6...
Read More →Next GPS IIF in October The next GPS satellite, Block IIF-3 (SVN65), scheduled to be launched on October 4, will be positioned in orbital slot 1, which is in plane A. This slot is currently occupied b...
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By Richard B. Langley, Simon Banville, and Peter Steigenberger. For a brief period, and for a few hours on certain days, signals from the first four orbiting Galileo satellites could be received by st...
Read More →Galileo Flight Model #3 (FM3) is readied for the satellite’s fit check on the dispenser that will carry it and FM4 in a parallel arrangement on Soyuz’ next launch. The silver-colored dispe...
Read More →News courtesy of CANSPACE Listserv. After more than four years of service as a Galileo test-bed satellite, GIOVE-B was retired on July 23. Its navigation transmitters were switched off and, acc...
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