October 10, 2014

The independent inquiry board tasked with identifying the cause of the anomaly in the August 22, 2014 launch of the two satellites of the Galileo constellation announced its findings. The unofficial news that came at the end of September, which blamed a malfunction in the rocket’s Fregat upper stage. The freezing of the hydrazine used as a fuel resulted in the inability to insert the satellites in their correct orbit.