Friday, December 18th, 2015
December 18, 2015 — The pace of deploying Europe’s own satellite navigation system continued to increase with today’s launch of the latest pair of Galileo satellites, doubling the number of satellites in space within nine months.Galileo 11 and...
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
The second pair of IOV (In-Orbit Validation) satellites forming part of Europe’s Galileo navigation system, developed and manufactured by Astrium, the European leading space technology company, have been launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from the European Space...
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
The first critical orbit-raising manoeuvre of GSAT-8 was successfully conducted on Sunday with the firing of the 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board the satellite for 95 minutes by commanding the spacecraft from ISRO’s Master...