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PARIS, September 11 – RIA Novosti, Viktor Ivanov. The two satellite navigation system Galileo, which started on Friday night from Kourou in French Guiana, has successfully separated from the Russian booster rocket “Soyuz-ST”, said the European aerospace group Arianespace.
The launch took place at 05.08 MSK.
These satellites will be, respectively, the ninth and tenth satellites placed into orbit by the project Galileo.
The total cost of Galileo navigation is about 7 billion euros. Each of the satellites cost about 40 million euros. The launch of the Russian “Soyuz-ST” from Kourou, French Guiana, costing 65-70 million euros.
It is planned that by 2020, the orbit must be withdrawn 30 satellites Galileo. Developers of Galileo argue that their system will be more accurate than GPS, and will provide Europeans independence from the American GPS, the Russian GLONASS and future of the Chinese Compass. Putting the system into operation was initially planned for 2008.
Designed on the basis of a rocket “Soyuz-2″ Russian carrier rocket “Soyuz-ST” is designed for commercial space launches in conditions of high humidity is located on the equator of the cosmodrome Kourou (French Guiana). It is adapted to the requirements of the Guiana Space Centre in terms of safety (reception telecommand to Earth to stop the flight), the system telemetry (transmitters operating in the UHF band to the European frame structure telemetry) and operating conditions (high humidity, marine transport and others).
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