GALILEO 5 (261)
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About This Satellite
Galileo 5, launched in August 2014, reached a lower-than-planned orbit but was recovered through careful maneuvering into the operational navigation fleet.
GALILEO 5 (261) is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 40128 with international designator 14050A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by OHB, on the GalileoSat platform, with a launch mass of about 733 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 26.315 km and a perigee near 16.898 km, with an inclination of 48.81° and a period of roughly 776.2 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 3.18 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 5 (261)'s apogee was 26.315 km, where its speed was about 3.18 km/s, completing about 1.9 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.