Ariane 5 ES | Galileo L8 (FOC FM07 & FM12-FM14)

Ariane 5 ES | Galileo L8 (FOC FM07 & FM12-FM14)

Ariane Launch Area 3
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

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Arianespace

Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane programme. Their vehicles launch exclusively from French Guiana in South America.

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Galileo L8 (FOC FM07 & FM12-FM14)

The Galileo constellation is ESA's satellite navigation system and is expected to be completed by 2020. Galileo will provide Europe with an alternative to the American GPS and Russian GLONASS constellations, but will be interoperable with both systems.

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Ariane 5 ES


Height 45.70 Meters

Max Stages 2

Mass To GTO 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust 11400 kN

Diameter 5.40 Meters

Mass To LEO 21000 kg

Liftoff Mass 746 Tonnes


Launch Success 8

Consecutive Success 8

Maiden Flight 2008-03-09

Launch Failures 0


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Galileo

Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that went live in 2016, created by the European Union through the European Space Agency (ESA), operated by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA).

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