The first pair of Galileo FOC spacecraft was launched on August 22 with a Soyuz launcher from the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guyana. Due to a malfunction of the Fregat upper stage, the ...

Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system took another step forward on Sunday with the launch of a second experimental satellite. The Giove-B carries an atomic clock that is stable to within ...

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 ...

On 12 March 2013, Galileo satellite GSAT0104, ... (IOV) satellites, made history by enabling the first position fix by Europe's independent satellite navigation system Galileo.

] The turn of Galileo’s main L-band (1200-1600 MHz) antenna came on the early morning of Saturday 10 December. A test signal was transmitted by the first Galileo satellite in the E1 band, which will ...

Galileo Satellite Positioning System Is a No-Go for Now ... The 30-satellite system promised extreme accuracy to everyone around the world without the limitations of the US-government-controlled GPS.

A vivid example is Europe’s Galileo satellite positioning system, which was officially launched in March 2002. ... Look, for example, at Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System ...

Synchronizing Galileo's satellites with an ensemble of high-performance atomic clocks. Europe's Galileo is the world's most precise satellite navigation system, providing meter-level accuracy and ...

Galileo, the European satellite navigation system, has been suffering a major outage since Friday. In a statement the GSA said the system is being affected by a “technical incident related to ...

Billed as a rival to the US Global Positioning System (GPS), the Galileo project will see 30 satellites deployed at an orbital altitude of 23,000 kilometres and the network should be made ...

Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system can now not only receive, relay, and locate distress beacon signals, it can also respond to the SOS, sending back reassurances to those awaiting rescue ...

Synchronizing Galileo's satellites with an ensemble of high-performance atomic clocks. Europe's Galileo is the world's most precise satellite navigation system, providing meter-level accuracy and ...