GIOVE
Sign in to saveAlso known as Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element, Galileo System Testbed, GSTB
), or Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element, is the name for two satellites built for the European Space Agency (ESA) to test technology in orbit for the Galileo positioning system.
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Purpose
- Satellites
- GIOVE-A
- Launched on 28 December 2005
- First Galileo transmissions
- Technical details
- Retirement
- GIOVE-B
- Launched on 27 April 2008
- First Galileo navigation transmissions
- Technical details
- Retirement
- GIOVE-A2
- Mission segment
- GIOVE Mission history
- References
- External links
), or Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element, is the name for two satellites built for the European Space Agency (ESA) to test technology in orbit for the Galileo positioning system.
The name was chosen as a tribute to Galileo Galilei, who discovered the first four natural satellites of Jupiter, and later discovered that they could be used as a universal clock to obtain the longitude of a point on the Earth's surface.
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