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The European Space Agency and European Commission launched the latest two Galileo navigation satellites on April 28.
The EU switched to Falcon 9 for launching the Galileo satellites due to the retirement of the Ariane 5 and the loss of the Soyuz rocket.
Two additional European Galileo navigation satellites were launched on Sunday morning, 2024-04-28, bringing the total number of Europe’s Galileo navigation satellites on-orbit to 30.
Beyond Gravity will supply the structure and thermal insulation for all six Galileo Second Generation satellites built by Airbus.
Ariane 6 is reaching final milestones leading up to its first flight, enabling the envisaged resumption of Galileo constellation deployment from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana in 2025.
Beyond Gravity’s site in Austria is supplying a total of 12 gimballing mechanisms for the electric thrusters on the six Galileo Second Generation satellites built by Thales Alenia Space.
Beyond Gravity is building the thermal insulation for the Airbus-built Galileo satellites in Austria.
The first of a further 12 Galileo Second Generation satellites are due to be launched starting in 2025.
Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) supplies thermal insulation, mechanisms, and structures to the next generation of European Galileo navigation satellites.
The new Galileo satellites will reach the constellation’s operational orbit at an altitude of 23,222 km.
Beyond Gravity supplies solar array drive mechanisms to Airbus that point the Galileo satellites’ solar arrays to provide the payload, especially the atomic clocks, with required electric power.
The first-stage booster used on the Galileo L12 mission previously supported launches for GPS III-3, Turksat 5A, Transporter-2, Intelsat G-33/G-34, Transporter-6, Intuitive Machines IM-1, and 13 Starlink missions.
EUSPA teams at the Galileo Control Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany are leading the Launch and Early Orbit Phase for the newly launched Galileo satellites together with the Galileo Service Operator SpaceOpal and its consortium.
The two Galileo satellites launched on 2024-04-27 brought the total number of Galileo satellites in orbit to thirty.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the European Commission’s Galileo L12 mission to medium Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 2024-04-27 at 8:34 p.m. ET.
The 2024-04-27 mission was the final flight for booster B1060 because the additional performance required to place the Galileo satellites into medium Earth orbit prevented booster recovery.
In November 2023 the European Commission was finalizing a deal with SpaceX for two Falcon 9 launches, each carrying two Galileo satellites scheduled for 2024, under a contract valued at 180,000,000 EUR.
Another pair of Galileo satellites will launch on a Falcon 9 later in 2024, alongside separate Falcon 9 launches of ESA’s EarthCARE Earth science mission and Hera asteroid mission.
The European Union Agency for the Space Programme confirmed the Galileo GM25 and FM27 satellites were in orbit and operating several hours after the 2024-04-27 launch.
Thierry Breton, European Commission commissioner for the internal market, selected SpaceX as the launcher for four Galileo satellites in 2024 because Ariane 6 was not yet available.