Globalstar Announces Successful Launch of Four Satellites
One of the foremost providers of mobile satellite data and voice services announced on October 22, 2007 that four Globalstar satellites have been successfully launched from The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They are used the Soyuz Launch vehicle. These are four of eight satellites launched this year that are being used to supplement the current constellation and hopes to hold the current constellation in place until the second generation of satellites will be launched. There were approximately $120 million to send these eight satellites into orbit. Globalstar believes that they represent the start of their next-generation constellation that is proposed to be launched in 2009. They are hoping that these remaining satellites will bring the gap with the satellites today. The 48 new satellites due to launch in 2009 are projected to offer service at least until 2025. Globalstar has signed a contract with a European launch service company named Arianespace for the next generation launch of satellites using the Soyuz Launch vehicle once again. The Soyuz Launch vehicle has had 1726 successful launches to date. They are expected the second-generation to begin launch campaigns summer 2009.
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