Russia to Launch Galileo Navigation Satellites
July 1, 2005
MOSCOW. June 30 (Interfax) – Russian rockets will orbit the first experimental satellites of the European Galileo navigation system, the Federal Space Agency’s unmanned spacecraft department chief Gennady Dmitriyev said in an interview posted on the agency’s website.
“The first experimental satellite of the Galileo system will be launched late this year aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. Another Soyuz will orbit the second Galileo satellite next year,” he said.
The agency has no information about plans to launch Galileo satellites aboard Chinese rockets, he said.
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