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Live coverage: Soyuz rocket lifts off with new Galileo satellites

May 23, 2016 Stephen Clark

A Russian-built Soyuz rocket lifted off from South America at 0848 GMT (4:48 a.m. EDT) Tuesday with two new navigation satellites for Europe’s Galileo system, readying the network for initial operating capability later this year.

Timeline for Soyuz launch 13th and 14th Galileo satellites

May 23, 2016 Stephen Clark

The 13th and 14th operational members of Europe’s Galileo navigation satellite network are set for liftoff Tuesday aboard a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana. Track the progress of the flight with this timeline of key events.

Next pair of Galileo navigation satellites encapsulated for launch

May 19, 2016 Stephen Clark

Europe’s nearly $8 billion Galileo navigation system, an analog to the U.S. GPS satellite network, is hitting a stride in production and launches, with another two spacecraft encapsulated Wednesday inside the fairing of a Soyuz rocket for liftoff next week.

Launch brings Galileo navigation system into double digits

September 11, 2015 Stephen Clark

A Russian rocket released two Galileo navigation satellites nearly 15,000 miles above Earth early Friday, adding to a growing fleet giving Europe an independent space-based positioning system tracking automobiles, airplanes and cell phone-carrying people around the world.

Orbital sail, Earth-watching satellites launched by PSLV

July 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

Five satellites made in Britain to track the expansion of Chinese cities and demonstrate a new sail design to clean up space junk blasted off Friday on top of an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.

British satellites set to ride Indian rocket into space

July 9, 2015 Stephen Clark

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is set for liftoff Friday with five satellites built in Britain to look down on Earth and test a solar sail’s ability to clean up space junk.