Galileo IOV
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The first two Galileo In-Orbit Validation satellites, launched in October 2011, proved the European navigation system's core technology and broadcast the first live Galileo signals.
Source: Wikipedia — Galileo (satellite navigation system) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Galileo IOV is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 37846 with international designator 11060A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by EADSB/THALR, on the GalileoSat platform, with a launch mass of about 700 kg, with a shape described as Box + 2 Pan. According to the TLE snapshot used when this page was generated (2026-08-18), its MEO orbit had an apogee of about 23.234 km and a perigee near 23.224 km, with an inclination of 56.97° and a period of roughly 844.7 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 3.67 km/s. Positions on this page are near-real-time SGP4 predictions propagated from the latest two-line element (TLE) data.
In the TLE snapshot used to generate this page, Galileo IOV's apogee was 23.234 km, where its speed was about 3.67 km/s, completing about 1.7 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.