ESA Releases Guide on Galileo 5 and 6 Recovery

July 8, 2015 - By GPS World Staff

The European Space Agency has published a short guide on the recovery of Galileo satellites 5 and 6. The PDF of “Salvage in Space: Recovering Galileo 5 and 6” can be downloaded.

The four-page guide, written for a non-technical audience, describes the root cause of the anomaly that placed the two satellites into the wrong orbit, and the solution used to correct the orbits.