Ensuring 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 billionths...

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....

The GNSS Research and Applications Centre of Excellence (GRACE) based at the University of Nottingham hosted the UK ‘Growing Galileo' event on 30th January 2009. The event focused on access...

Eos Positioning Systems has recently launched its Arrow Gold+ GNSS receiver. This receiver supports the free, new Galileo High-Accuracy Service (HAS) for initial differential correction, which allows Arrow Gold+ users to...

A further step towards the deployment of Europe's Galileo global navigation satellite system has been taken, with the successful launch of ESA's second Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element (GIOVE-B) satellite, carrying...

NovAtel Inc. (Canada) has achieved a Galileo programme milestone through the award of a contract worth €6.3M (US$8.6M) by Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) for the continued development of the...

With 26 satellites now in orbit and over 1.5 billion smartphones and devices worldwide receiving highly accurate navigation signals, Europe’s Galileo navigation system is now moving towards the next generation of...

NovAtel Inc. (Canada) has been accepted as a Full Member of Galileo Services, the first company outside Europe to be inducted into this group of organisations. Galileo Services is a...

NovAtel Inc. (Canada)) has now acquired and tracked the E5a signal transmitted by the Galileo GIOVE-A test satellite. The receiver used was NovAtel’s EuroPak-15a configurable, 16 channel, GPS+Galileo receiver, developed...

LogicaCMG has been selected for three important development contracts valued at over €20 million (about £14 million) in Europe’s Galileo programme. The three contracts are to develop the facilities that...