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The ESA's second Galileo In-Orbit Validation
Element (GIOVE-B) satellite of Europe’s
Galileo global navigation system, was launched
at 00.16 CEST (Central European Summer
Time) on 27 April 2008. Telespazio’s
Fucino Space Centre successfully managed
the launch and early orbit phase (LEOP)
of the satellite.
The launch phases of the GIOVE-B satellite
were followed live by the Fucino Space Centre,
during an event attended by Jacques
Barrot, vice-president of the European
Commission and transport commissioner, Jean-Jacques
Dordain, ESA’s Director-General,
Etelka Barsi-Pataki, Member of
European Parliament and Rapporteur for Galileo,
Andrea Annunziata, Italian
undersecretary for transport, Giorgio
Zappa, Finmeccanca’s Chief Operating
Officer and Giuseppe Veredice,
Telespazio’s CEO.
Finmeccanica, with the joint ventures Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space (which together are part of the Space Alliance created in 2007 with Thales) and with SELEX GALILEO, is playing a leading role in the development of the Galileo programme, contributing with its technological excellence and know-how to the most important European space programme.
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