Galileo is Europe’s initiative for a global navigation satellite system, providing an accurate and guaranteed positioning service under civilian control. It will be interoperable with GPS and GLONASS, the two...

At a budgetary conciliation meeting on 23rd November 2007 the European Parliament and Council reached agreement on funding for the Galileo project. It was agreed that Galileo will be funded...

The Galileo project is moving towards delivery of a new and advanced global civil positioning service for the benefit of citizens in Europe and the rest of the world. The...

Septentrio is demonstrating a Galileo receiver providing position, velocity and time information (PVT) based on the European Galileo Satellite signals, at the ION GNSS conference in Fort Worth Texas. This...

 After having completed checks in space, two more of Europe’s Galileo satellites are now fully operational, broadcasting navigation signals and, from today, relaying search and rescue messages from across the...

The EU’s Galileo satellite navigation system now has eight satellites in orbit following the launch of the latest pair. Galileo 7 and 8 lifted off at 21:46 GMT (22:46 CET,...

ESA’s fifth Galileo navigation satellite, one of two left in the wrong orbit this summer, will make a series of manoeuvres this month as a prelude to its health being...

To ensure the early interoperability of Europe’s satellite navigation with GPS, the four Galileo satellites have begun broadcasting the ‘offset’ between the parallel navigation systems’ timings, accurate to a few...

The twin Galileo satellites have been attached to the supporting dispenser that will hold them in place during their 20th October 2011 launch atop the first Soyuz from French Guiana....

After years of inactivity, the Sun is waking up, perhaps profoundly affecting Earth's space environment and the satellites orbiting through it, including the imminent Galileo constellation. Solar storms affect satellite...