Mission record
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Galileo L13 (FOC FM26 & FM32)
Trajectory & orbital insertion · playback
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Provider
SpaceX
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
MEO
Mission type
Navigation
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:50:49 GMT
Orbital launch #
#6760 ever
Go probability
60%
Weather
Surface Electric Fields Rule, Cumulus Cloud Rule, Anvil Cloud Rules
Mission
Two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system. Originally planned for launch on Soyuz-ST and then Ariane 6 but both were unavailable. Galileo provides Europe with an alternative to the American GPS and Russian GLONASS constellations, but will be interoperable with both systems.
Deployed payloads · 2