Liftoff Time (GMT)
05:01:00
Wednesday December 17, 2025
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Galileo is the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that went live in 2016, created by the European Union (EU) through the European GNSS Agency (GSA), headquartered in Prague in the Czech Republic, with two ground operations centers, Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich in Germany and Fucino in Italy. The project is named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. One of the aims of Galileo is to provide an independent high-precision positioning system so European nations do not have to rely on the U.S. GPS, or the Russian GLONASS systems, which could be disabled or degraded by their operators at any time.
Manufacturer: OHB
Operator: EU Agency for the Space Programme
Medium Earth Orbit
2 Payloads
1,466 kilograms

Launching
Northeast
5th
Mission
4th
Mission of 2025
306th
Mission
7th
Mission of 2025
294th
Orbital launch attempt