• GIOVE (Italian for 'Jupiter'; pronounced [ˈdʒɔːve]), or Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element, is the name for two satellites built for the European Space...
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  • Validation Element, a series of artificial satellites prototyping a satellite navigation system Missy Giove, American racing cyclist This disambiguation...
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    MEOSAR system. The first Galileo test satellite GIOVE-A was launched 28 December 2005, while the first satellite to be part of the operational system was...
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  • followon GIOVE-A2 satellite while the joint venture's GIOVE-B satellite remained on the ground awaiting launch. Since that time, the GIOVE-B satellite successfully...
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    A satellite navigation or satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geopositioning. A satellite navigation system with global...
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    satellites have been launched. The 2 GIOVE ("Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element") prototype vehicles were retired in 2012. Currently, 25 satellites are...
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    The role of Compass-M1 for Compass is similar to the role of the GIOVE satellites for the Galileo system. The orbit of Compass-M1 is nearly circular...
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    Marazzini, Claudio (2005). "I nomi dei satelliti di Giove: da Galileo a Simon Marius (The names of the satellites of Jupiter: from Galileo to Simon Marius)"....
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  • EADS Astrium. During 2005, SSTL completed construction of GIOVE-A1, the first test satellite for Europe's Galileo space navigation system. In 2010 and...
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    investigation of the aurora borealis, sounding rocket launches, and satellite tracking, among other things. Located 200 km north of the Arctic Circle...
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    Io (moon) (redirect from Satellite Io)
    (1995). "Satellites of Jupiter". Marazzini, Claudio (2005). "I nomi dei satelliti di Giove: da Galileo a Simon Marius" [The names of the satellites of Jupiter:...
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    Claudio (2005). "I nomi dei satelliti di Giove: da Galileo a Simon Marius" [The names of Jupiter's satellites: from Galileo to Simon Marius]. Lettere Italiane...
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    cultivated kitchen gardens. The property hosts numerous cell towers and satellite dishes, befitting its location on the highest point in Naples. The church's...
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    the L band radio transmissions from the GIOVE-A satellite 2006 - NERC Cirrus and Anvils: European Satellite and Airborne Radiation measurements project...
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    List of European Space Agency programmes and missions (category European Space Agency satellites)
    canonical Halley Armada. GIOVE-A, launched December 2005 – Demonstration mission testing technologies for the Galileo satellite navigation system. Hipparcos...
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    signals transmitted by the GIOVE-A satellite and were also the first to track the signals of the first experimental satellite of the future Chinese Compass...
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    small satellites. In its 22-year history, it has developed satellites for 27 missions. The two Galileo satellite navigation proofing satellites, GIOVE-A and...
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    Gagarin's Start (Site 1/5) for crewed missions, and from Site 31/6 for satellite launches with the Fregat upper stage. The Soyuz-FG performed 64 successful...
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    Cluster II (spacecraft) (category Geospace monitoring satellites)
    performed with the remaining flying satellites until the satellites have all re-entered). The four identical Cluster II satellites studied the impact of the Sun's...
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    Fregat upper stage were used to launch the following spacecraft: Galaxy 14, GIOVE A, Mars Express, AMOS-2, Venus Express, Cluster. SL-type fairing is used...
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  • monitoring of the GIOVE-A satellite. The Optical Caliberation Laboratory was constructed in 2006 to caliberate the optical system of a satellite. "Mission Control...
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    Jun 4" (Tweet). Retrieved 7 July 2021 – via Twitter. "Galileo prototype GIOVE-A switched off after 16 years in orbit". ESA. 24 November 2021. Archived...
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    awarded the Royal Institute of Navigation Gold Medal for the successful GIOVE-A mission for the European Galileo system, awarded the Sir Arthur Clarke...
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    1580. Diane et Callisto, by Nicolas-René Jollain, 1770, oil on canvas. Giove e Callisto, by Jacopo Amigoni, circa 1740–1750, oil on canvas. Callisto's...
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    failure after the vehicle deposited the upper stage, a Meteor MS-1 weather satellite, and 18 secondary cubesats back into Earth's atmosphere due to the first...
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  • Inside GNSS (category Satellite navigation)
    technology for engineers, designers, and policy-makers of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). In the United States, GNSS is identified mainly with the...
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  • ICBM and its derivatives between 2005 and 2009. All launches are orbital satellite launches, unless stated otherwise. References Fregat/IRIS: NSSDCA/COSPAR...
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    signed on 14 June 1962. From 1968 to 1972, ESRO launched seven research satellites, but ELDO was not able to deliver a launch vehicle. Both agencies struggled...
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    gas reserves were discovered southeast of the Bari, Brindisi—Rovesti and Giove oil discoveries. Surveys indicate reserves of 3 billion barrels of oil in...
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    Space Agency. It is a satellite-only broadcast network which periodically transmits programming via Eutelsat's Eutelsat 9A satellite to Europe, North Africa...
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