"reached its desired orbit."
The rest of the article would seem to suggest that what it's actually reached is an orbit that sort of does well enough in a pinch but is nowhere near what was wanted.
The Galileo project is to rocket science[1] what the Keystone Kops are to law enforcement.
[1] Bugger all science value, bugger all commercial drive and now they can't get the things in the right place. Still the chair warming coterie of gravy train riders in Brussels feel more important, so it meets its core goal.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
