Galileo Satellite System now more near: Giove B is in orbit

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Spatial center I Forge (Avezzano), 27 April - Starting today the European Navigation Satellitare System Galileo "It's a reality": don't have doubts the general manager of the European (Esa) Spatial Agency, Jean Jacques Dordain, and the European Commissioner to the Transports, Jacques Barrot, after the success of the throwing of the precursory satellite of the system, Giove B, happened at 00,16 (Italian Time) o'clock by the Russian base of Baikonur, in Kazakhstan. The completionsheluded in 2013. Wanted from Esa and Committee European and with a budget of 3,4 billion of euros for the period 2007-2013, Galileo it's the first system of navigation born satellitare and managed in civil circle and destined to have "applications in the life of every day", Barrot saids reporting himself to the control of the navigation with applications in the sector of the aerial, railway, road and maritime transports, of the telecommunications and of the safety, with a global coverage permanent. "It 'a good day - saids Dordain - why we have a new European satellite. The launch was perfect, the separation from Fregat launcher took place regularly, the signal was purchase, the satellite has reached the planned orbit, panels solar are regularly deployed, the batteries are charged and we are testing the subsystems for a one. " Today, he added, was "a great step forward technological showing that Galileo is a reality". The satellite is now I activate in its definitive orbit, to 24 kilometers and beginning from Thursday the signal will regularly be acquired and the activity of routine will start. Giove B is a precursor of the system Galileo because, except that for the operational (of two years) life, all the technological characteristics are identical to those of the 30 satellites of the constellation, whose completion is anticipated in the 2013. "We are six years old to build the other 26 satellites - Barrot has said - and I hope that now the times are respected. And' important to have neither delays nor additional costs. Today - he has added - I am very optimist and confident to win this great challenge." Satisfied also the chairman of the law on Galileo near the European Parliament, the Hungarian Eterika Barsi-Pataki: "Giove B - he has said - And' the symbol of a new departure of Galileo and a great opportunity for the European industries that they take part to the project." What Galileo is by now a reality it is convinced also the person responsible of the program for the German firm Astrium, Reinhold Lutz: "now - he has said - it deals with managing the transition from the phase of validation in orbit to the definitive constellation."
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