Galileo L4 (FOC FM03-FM04)

Soyuz launched the seventh and eighth Galileo navigation satellites from Kourou. Its Fregat upper stage placed both spacecraft into their planned medium Earth orbit.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

MEO

Medium Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

1.5 T

Flight

5th

of 13 Soyuz STB Fregat flights

Date and time

27 March 2015, 21:46 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz STB Fregat

Builder

Progress RSC

Launch site

Soyuz Launch Complex, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Payload

Navigation

International designator

2015-017

Launches in 2015

18th of 87

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