Deployed four Galileo navigation satellites, named Tara, Samuel, Anna, and Ellen, bringing the European constellation to 26 satellites. Final flight of the Ariane 5 ES variant and the last Ariane 5 mission dedicated to Galileo.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 8 Ariane 5 ES flights
- Date and time
- 25 July 2018, 11:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ES
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2018-060
- Launches in 2018
- 60th of 114
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