From right: Jan Wörner, ESA Director General, follows the launch of the Galileo satellites 9-10, from the Jupiter VIP room, together with Igor Komarov, Director General of Roscosmos, Chantal Berthelot, Member of the French Parliament and President of the French Parliamentary Space Group, and Joël Barre, Director General of CNES.
Galileo satellites 9-10 lifted off together at 02:08 GMT on 11 September 2015 (04:08 CEST; 23:08 local time, 10 September 2015) from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, atop a Soyuz launcher.