Signature of the Galileo In-Orbit Validation Launch Services Contract

René Oosterlinck, ESA Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation-related Activities (centre), and Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chaiman and CEO Arianespace (left), sign the Galileo In-Orbit Validation Launch Services Contract in the ESA Pavilion at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget, 15 June 2009. Mr Paul Verhoef, Programme Manager of EU Satellite Navigation Programmes at the European Commission (right), watches the ceremony.