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GSAT0227 (GALILEO 30)
Galileo Navigation Satellite · European Space Agency
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GSAT0227 (Galileo 30), part of Europe's independent satellite navigation constellation, contributing atomic clocks accurate to better than 3 nanoseconds — precision that gives Galileo civilian positioning often sharper than an equivalent unaugmented GPS signal, a genuine technical edge Europe built by starting from a newer design baseline decades after GPS's original 1970s architecture.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Medium Earth Orbita high vantage point, ideal for navigation
- Altitude
- 14,426–14,443 mi (23,216–23,243 km)
- Inclination
- 55.2°
- One orbit
- 14.1 hours1.7 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 59600
- Int’l designator
- 2024-079C
- Launched
- 2024
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 17 Sep 2026.
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