Soyuz is Approved for its March 27 Flight to Deploy 2 Galileo Navigation Satellites

Galileo - Soyuz Flight VS11 - photo Arianespace

Mar 27, 2015 ASDNews Source : Arianespace

Authorization has been given for tomorrow’s Arianespace Soyuz launch from French Guiana, providing the “green light” for this medium-lift mission that will further expand Europe’s Galileo global navigation satellite system.

The approval was granted today after the regular pre-launch review for Arianespace flights – which confirmed the readiness of Soyuz and its payload of two Galileo Full Operational Capability (FOC) spacecraft, the launch site and associated infrastructure at the Spaceport, as well as the network of downrange tracking stations.

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