Four more Galileo satellites get ready for orbital delivery in July

Four more Galileo satellites get ready for orbital delivery in July

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/05/four_more_galileo_satellites_get_ready_to_party_in_july/

Unperturbed by posturing in the UK and EU, the European Space Agency has welcomed the latest pair of Galileo satellites to its spaceport in Kourou, French Guyana ahead of a July launch.

Satellites 25 and 26 will join their siblings, the imaginatively named 23 and 24, aboard an Ariane 5 to be flung into an orbit 23,222 km above the earth as part of the growing constellation. The more whimsical person may prefer to use the names assigned by 2011’s competition winners: Tara, Samuel, Anna and Ellen.