Arianespace plans bid to launch Galileo satellites: CEO

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AFP) — The European commercial space-launch consortium Arianespace said Saturday it would make a bid to launch 26 satellites from French Guyana to kickstart the European Union's Galileo satellite navigation programme.

The European Parliament on Wednesday signalled its green light for the deployment of Galileo, seen by space experts as a challenge to the US-administered GPS global positioning system.

"Arianespace is going to make an offer that corresponds to the needs of the European Space Agency," its chief executive Jean-Yves Le Gall to reporters, enabling the long-delayed Galileo system to be up and running by 2013.

To meet ESA requirements for two different launch systems, Le Gall said Arianespace would use both Ariane 5 and Soyuz...

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