Soyuz STB/Fregat | Galileo FOC-1 & Galileo FOC-2

Soyuz STB/Fregat | Galileo FOC-1 & Galileo FOC-2

Soyuz Launch Complex
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 FOC-1 & Galileo FOC-2

These are the first two satellites of the 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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Soyuz STB Fregat


Height 46.30 Meters

Max Stages 3

Mass To GTO 3250 kg

Liftoff Thrust 0 kN

Diameter 2.95 Meters

Mass To LEO 8200 kg

Liftoff Mass 312 Tonnes


Launch Success 13

Consecutive Success 11

Maiden Flight 2011-10-21

Launch Failures 1


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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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