The European Galileo navigation system has two more satellites in orbit following their launch in the early morning of Sunday, 28 April, at 01:34 BST/02:34 CEST. With 30 satellites now in orbit ...

27 satellites at more than 12,400 miles altitude Galileo, of course, is a satellite constellation. It is organized on three orbital planes at an altitude of 14,200 miles (23,200 km), each plane ...

The Galileo L13 mission delivered the next two navigational satellites in the ESA (European Space Agency) constellation − satellites 31 and 32. According to ESA, Galileo is "the world’s most ...

The fifth and sixth Galileo satellites, launched together on 22 August 2014, ended up in an elongated orbit travelling out to 25 900 km above Earth and back down to 13 713 km.

Liftoff of the Galileo L13 mission occurred at 6:50 p.m. ET. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two European navigation satellites tonight (Sept. 17) and then landed safely, acing its 22nd mission ...

The Galileo L13 mission delivered the next two navigational satellites in the ESA (European Space Agency) constellation − satellites 31 and 32. According to ESA, Galileo is "the world’s most ...

SpaceX launched Falcon 9, carrying the European Commission's Galileo L13 mission Tuesday, to deliver its navigation satellite constellation to medium Earth orbit, despite questionable weather ...

The Galileo satellites orbit Earth at an altitude of 14,429 miles (23,222 kilometers). Twenty-eight of the 1,540-pound (700 kilograms) spacecraft have been launched to date, ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a European satellite-navigation mission on Saturday (April 27). It was a record-tying 20th liftoff for this particular booster.

SpaceX will launch four of the EU’s Galileo satellites from the U.S. next year in two rounds, using the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, Javier Benedicto, the European Space Agency’s director of ...

The European Union has struck a tentative deal to launch four Galileo navigation satellites using Falcon 9 rockets of U.S.-based SpaceX, European officials said on Tuesday, in the latest sign of ...