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Ariane 5 retired in summer 2023 without a replacement source for Galileo launches.
The first stage booster on the Galileo L12 mission was tail number B1060 in the SpaceX fleet and it launched for a 20th and final time on 2024-04-27.
The European Space Agency contracted with SpaceX to launch up to four Galileo spacecraft over two launches in 2024.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 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.
Twenty-eight Galileo satellites had launched to date prior to the Galileo L12 mission, all of them on Russian-built Soyuz rockets or Europe’s Ariane 5.
SpaceX did not plan to recover Falcon 9 booster B1060 on the Galileo L12 mission due to the additional performance requirement to deliver the payload to medium Earth orbit.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch Galileo satellites for the European Space Agency from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Galileo is currently the world’s most precise satellite navigation system and has served over four billion smartphone users since entering Open Service in 2017.
SpaceX will launch two Galileo satellites into medium Earth orbit on Saturday, 2024-04-27.
Galileo is a flagship program of the European Union and is managed and funded by the European Commission.
SpaceX is targeting Saturday, 2024-04-27 at 8:34 p.m. ET for a Falcon 9 launch of the European Commission’s Galileo L12 mission to medium Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency navigational warning shows a launch window opening Saturday, 2024-04-27 for the Galileo satellite launch.
Galileo has served over four billion smartphone users worldwide since entering Open Service in 2017.
SpaceX will launch two Galileo satellites into medium Earth orbit on Saturday, 2024-04-27.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch Galileo satellites for the European Space Agency from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Galileo is a flagship program of the European Union that is managed and funded by the European Commission.
The LEO-PNT constellation will operate in combination with Galileo and other satellite navigation systems to provide guaranteed centimeter-level location accuracy.
LEO-PNT aims to deploy a set of small satellites in low Earth orbit to test how such spacecraft could augment Galileo and other navigation systems operating in higher orbits.
KASS is designed to optimize positioning and navigation performance of the existing GPS constellation and includes upgrades compatible with the Galileo and KPS constellations.
The European Commission was finalizing a contract with SpaceX to launch two pairs of Galileo navigation satellites on Falcon 9 rockets, tentatively scheduled for April and July.