galileo
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
For the 10th time, the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) is calling for services, products, and business innovations that use satellite navigation in everyday life. As a new partner in 2013, the European Patent Office (EPO) will...
Friday, May 17th, 2013
Europe has inaugurated its newest Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) service center. Located in Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain, the Loyola de Palacio GNSS Service Center will be dedicated to providing constellation information to companies that want...
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Europe’s new age of satellite navigation has passed a historic milestone – the very first determination of a ground location using the four Galileo satellites currently in orbit together with their ground facilities. This fundamental step confirms...
Sunday, February 10th, 2013
The European Council heads of states meeting ended today (February 8, 2013) without making further cuts in the proposed budget for Europe's GNSS programs. Despite sizable cuts in the overall budget proposed by the European Commission (EC), the...
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
Europe’s future commitment to the project, known as Galileo and designed to create a new, improved and European-controlled version of America’s Global Positioning System, is to be decided in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, when European leaders...
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
Europe’s third Galileo satellite has transmitted its first test navigation signals back to Earth. The two Galileo satellites launched last October have reached their final orbital position and are...
Sunday, October 14th, 2012
Europe's second pair of fully operational Galileo satellites was successfully launched Friday (12 October 2012) from the European spaceport in French Guiana, South America. The satellites' payloads were designed, manufactured and tested in the UK by Astrium and will be...
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) announces the industry’s lightest, ultra-compact dual-frequency positioning engine, the B110 GNSS receiver board. The B110 is the first GNSS board with Topcon’s new Vanguard™ ASIC, supporting 226 universal channels for GPS, GLONASS...
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
The second pair of Galileo navigation satellites is being prepared for launch from Europe’s Spaceport in October. The third Galileo satellite’s propellant tank will be getting filled with hydrazine fuel this week, and the fourth will be getting its propellant tank filled next week. The...
Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Following the successful acceptance review, Astrium, Europe’s leading space company, has brought the third and fourth Galileo IOV (In-Orbit Validation) satellites to the European Space Agency (ESA) in Kourou, French Guiana. The arrival of the two satellites...
