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Launch of Next Galileo Satellite Delayed

posted by Satri on Tuesday March 14, @10:08AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the everythiing-goes-well-let's-delay-the-project dept.

Konquest writes "The second satellite part of the Galileo system was due for launch this spring. However, the mission managers are confident they now have enough data from the first satellite, Giove-A, to secure the network's allocated frequencies. So they decided to push back the launch to this autumn. The launch of the first Galileo satellite occurred late last year, on December 28th."

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• Preemptive management

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  by Satri (3) on Tuesday March 14, @01:54PM (#535)
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  This sounds to me like wise management: plan the second satellite now in case we need it and delay it if we don't, instead of, oops - we would need another satellite since the first one has failed. Bravo Galileo team!