Thales Alenia Space (France) is shipping Giove-B, the second test satellite in the Galileo navigation constellation, from its plant in Rome to the ESA-ESTEC facility in Noordwijk, the Netherlands this...

NOAA will lead an international effort to pinpoint the locations of more than 40 global positioning satellites in Earth orbit, which is vital to ensuring the accuracy of GPS data...

1Spatial (UK) has announced the acquisition of ComSine, a privately owned SME specialising in IT consultancy and development for the telecommunications, navigation and geographic information industries, including satellite Earth observation....

The Giove-A Signal-in-Space Interface Control Document, the document that gives the technical details of the signals transmitted by the GIOVE-A satellite, has been released. This will allow receiver manufacturers and...

The test campaign using the large antenna at Chilbolton Observatory to analyse the navigation signals transmitted by Giove-A, the first Galileo satellite, has been successfully completed.    The 25 metre...

The market for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) has never looked so buoyant. Are we in the midst of a revolution or simply witnessing evolution pre-planned and destined to run...

With the Leica AR25, Leica Geosystems introduces the next generation of high performance choke ring antenna, covering all present and currently planned GNSS constellations and signals, including L-Band (SBAS, CDGPS...

EADS Astrium has acquired Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL), maker of Galileo's first satellite, GIOVE-A. The deal provides the financial and industrial resources required for SSTL's expansion and future development,...

By the end of this decade, four independent Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) will be operational. Today only the American GPS system is fully operational, and the Russian GLONASS system...

Trimble has introduced a new Trimble R8 GNSS System with significant innovations in Trimble R-Track technology including RTK Signal Prediction technology, RTK correction compression and next-generation Global Navigation Satellite System...