First Galileo signals transmitted by GIOVE-A


GIOVE-A in orbit (artist's impression)
 
Artist's impression of GIOVE-A in orbit. The spacecraft antennas are directed towards the viewer.


 

Artist's impression of GIOVE-A, the first of ESA’s In-Orbit Verification spacecraft for the Galileo global navigation satellite system, as it deploys its second solar array shortly after launch by a Russian Soyuz/Fregat vehicle, in December 2005.





Release date: 20 July 2009