Galileo · Navigation
GSAT0204 (GALILEO 8)
Backup / standbyNavigationMEO
Broadcasts precise timing/positioning signals for global navigation (GNSS).
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 27, 2015 at 09:46 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Soyuz STB Fregat →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Galileo L4 (FOC FM03-FM04)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 23,228 km
- Periapsis
- 23,216 km
- Inclination
- 56.8°
- Orbital period
- 844.7 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- Manufacturer
- OHB-System GmbH, SSTL
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 723 kg
- Design lifetime
- 12 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2015-017B
- NORAD catalog №
- 40545
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Constellation
- Galileo
- Radar cross-section
- 9.4592 m²
- Status
- Backup / standby
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