Galileo · Navigation
GSAT0214 (GALILEO 18)
OperationalNavigationMEO
Broadcasts precise timing/positioning signals for global navigation (GNSS).
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 17, 2016 at 01:06 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ES →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Galileo L8 (FOC FM07 & FM12-FM14)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 23,235 km
- Periapsis
- 23,209 km
- Inclination
- 55.49°
- 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)
- 2016-069D
- NORAD catalog №
- 41862
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Constellation
- Galileo
- Radar cross-section
- 8.5742 m²
- Status
- Operational
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