The UK wing of the aerospace firm Astrium has won one of the final two contracts to have been awarded for Europe's Galileo GPS rival. Astrium will be paid €73.5m (£65.2m) for the "housekeeping" of the ...

ESA plans to use its upcoming Lunar Pathfinder mission to experiment with expanding sat-nav coverage to the Moon. By tuning in to the radio signals leaking from the Galileo and GPS satellite ...

LONDON — The two consortiums formed to build Europe's Euros 3.2billion Galileo satellite navigation system are being urged to pool their resources and bid as a team to construct the global position ...

LONDON — A team from Cornell University’s Global Positioning System (GPS) Laboratory has cracked the secret codes to be used by Europe's Galileo global navigation satellite network, despite efforts to ...

Since the start of the Ukraine conflict, there have been periodic disruptions of Europe’s Galileo GPS network—attacks that have almost all been traced to Russia. The European Union runs its own ...

The Navigation Support Office at the Mission Control Centre of the European Space Operations Center (ESOC) has been tasked with providing independent precise orbit determination for European space ...

After a three-day delay, on Dec. 4, at 7:19 p.m. EST (00:19 GMT) launch service provider Arianespace launched Galileo satellites 27 and 28 on a Soyuz launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

Competing EU and US systems will send common open signal After several years of negotiations the European Union and the USA have resolved the remaining legal and procedural differences between their ...

The European Union and the U.S. Thursday announced a breakthrough in their efforts to make Galileo and GPS (global positioning system), their respective satellite navigation systems, interoperable.

Apple Maps, Waze, etc. will know just where you are thanks to Europe’s Galileo satellite system. Photo: European GNSS Agency Phones and other devices located in the U.S. are now permitted to access ...

Galileo, the European Union’s answer to GPS experienced a major outage beginning July 11, and remains offline as of this posting on July 15. According to a report by the BBC, the cause is a "technical ...

The EU and the US have put the finishing touches to a system designed to enable signals from their respective satellite navigation systems to be picked up on the same receiver device in future. A ...