The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a contract to Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (United Kingdom) for initial activities leading to the construction of a second spacecraft for the Galileo...

NovAtel Inc. (Canada) has been granted temporary authorisation by the European Space Agency (ESA) to sell Galileo/Giove-A receivers to a limited number of specified companies, making NovAtel one of the...

ESA's Lunar Pathfinder mission to the Moon will carry an advanced satellite navigation receiver in order to perform the first-ever satnav positioning fix in lunar orbit. This experimental payload marks...

Secret codes used by Galileo have been cracked by American scientists. This has potentially devastating consequences for the European Union which wants to charge high-tech firms ‘licence fees’ to access...

Septentrio (Belgium) has released AsteRx1, a compact high-end single-frequency GNSS receiver for industrial and professional applications. Besides GPS, AsteRx1 incorporates capabilities for full use of the European Galileo L1 signal....

NovAtel Inc. has released its first production standard Galileo-ready receiver and antenna. The new L1L5E5a receiver offers superior 16 channel tracking of GPS L1/L5, Galileo L1/E5a and SBAS signals in...

Following exchanges that lasted for six months, negotiations on the Republic of Korea’s participation in Europe’s satellite radionavigation programme reached an approval. The agreement which paves the way for the...

The future Galileo Concessionaire has agreed the locations of the various facilities under its responsibility that are required for the successful deployment of the Galileo Programme. According to this Agreement...

Chinese participation in the Galileo Programme, Europe's satellite navigation system, has been furthered with the signing of three contracts in Beijing, more contracts are to be signed in the near...

Monday 27th June the executive director of the GJU, Rainer Grohe, reported to the Supervisory Board regarding the evaluation of the joint proposal received from the two consortia in the...