Stay up Late Tonight to Watch Europe's Ariane 6 Rocket Launch Its 1st Pair of Galileo Navigation Satellites

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At 6:01 Central European time, two satellites of the European navigation system Galileo took off into space on Wednesday. It is the first launch on board the new Ariane 6 rocket from the space station in Kourou in French Guiana. After a few years of pause, Europe can now independently expand the world's most precise positioning system.

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On Wednesday morning, two satellites of Galileo's most accurate navigation program in French Guiana will be launched with an Ariane 6 missile.

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Ariane six in her protective hangar a few days ago. The result of a long process."Sometimes, I imagine it very close, sometimes much further away. But it's 800 metres away," says Ralf, always impressed as he sees the launcher every day. Yet, it's his teams who, in this hall, assemble the rocket."We do it in a horizontal way," says Ralph Tucker, Ariane 6's operating program manager. "It's different from Ariane five where it was vertical. Here, it…

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Tomorrow, two Galileo satellites will be launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport of Kourou in French Guyana, in the fourteenth launch of operating satellites for the Galileo program. It will be the first launch of Galileo with Ariane 6 and the fifth launch of the European heavy goods carrier. ...