The European Galileo navigation system has two more satellites in orbit following their launch in the early morning of Sunday, 28 April, at 01:34 BST/02:34 CEST. With 30 satellites now in orbit ...

27 satellites at more than 12,400 miles altitude Galileo, of course, is a satellite constellation. It is organized on three orbital planes at an altitude of 14,200 miles (23,200 km), each plane ...

The fifth and sixth Galileo satellites, launched together on 22 August 2014, ended up in an elongated orbit travelling out to 25 900 km above Earth and back down to 13 713 km.

Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system largely regained service Thursday, a full week after a mass outage began on July 11. The European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency, known as ...

In parallel, the Airbus site in Friedrichshafen, on Lake Constance, is preparing for an industrialised production line for currently six second-generation Galileo satellites. The satellite integration ...

But teething problems have affected Galileo since soon after the launch of its pilot phase nearly three years ago. Less than a month into that phase, atomic clocks onboard 18 Galileo satellites ...

The Galileo L13 mission delivered the next two navigational satellites in the ESA (European Space Agency) constellation − satellites 31 and 32. According to ESA, Galileo is "the world’s most ...

The Galileo L13 mission delivered the next two navigational satellites in the ESA (European Space Agency) constellation − satellites 31 and 32. According to ESA, Galileo is "the world’s most ...

OHB has denied the comments, which were reportedly made in 2009, just before Galileo awarded the company a €566 million ($760 million) contract to build satellites — but a week after the cable ...

The four satellites that currently comprise the Galileo satellite constellation — Europe's version of the United States' GPS system— have passed a key test called In-Orbit Validation (IOV ...

Related: SpaceX launches 2 Galileo navigation satellites to orbit (video) The Galileo constellation — Europe's equivalent of the United States' Global Positioning System — resides at an ...