flown missionPartial Failure
Soyuz STB/Fregat | Galileo L3 (FOC FM01-FM02)
ArianespaceSoyuz Launch Complex — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Either the launch vehicle reached orbit but did not deliver its payload in the targeted orbit, or an exceptional event made it impossible to consider the mission a success.
mission
- Name
- Galileo L3 (FOC FM01-FM02)
- Type
- Navigation
- Target orbit
- Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)
These are the first two Full Operational Capability satellites of the Galileo constellation, 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.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
- Fail reason
- Satellites were placed into an incorrect orbit due to an anomaly with the Fregat upper stage. Both payloads recovered using their own propulsion.
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Soyuz STB Fregat
- Family
- Soyuz
- Variant
- STB/Fregat
- Provider
- Arianespace
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- FRA
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launch site
- Pad
- Soyuz Launch Complex
- Location
- Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Country
- GUF
- Timezone
- America/Cayenne
- Coordinates
- 5.3019, -52.8346