GALILEO PROTOFLIGHTMODEL satellite began transmitting E1 and E5 signals in early December. ESA reports them well within power and shape specifications, and suited for interoperability with GPS. The ...

Galileo is Europe’s civil global satellite navigation constellation and a major success, being the world’s most precise satnav system and offering meter-scale accuracy to more than two billion users ...

Europe's fledgling satellite-navigation system has achieved a crucial milestone, showing that it's capable of pinpointing locations around the globe. The four satellites that currently comprise the ...

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Work on developing Galileo, Europe’s global satellite navigation system, is continuing, following the endorsement Europe’s Prime Ministers gave the programme at the European Council meeting in Nice, ...

With the planned launch of two satellites aboard a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana later this month, Europe is pushing ahead with its own satellite-navigation system, known as Galileo. It promises ...

PARIS — The European Commission, after months of tiptoeing around the issue, has informed its 27 member governments that the Galileo satellite navigation system will not reach full service until 2020 ...