The Galileo satellite system is a £8bn navigation project intended to rival the US-controlled Global Positioning System. Once fully operational in 2020 it will provide accurate position ...

Together with precise optical ranging between selected satellites, this provides orbit determination capabilities with unprecedented accuracy. The Kepler infrastructure thus consists of three main ...

UK firms have been integral to the development of Galileo UK ministers are setting aside £92m to study the feasibility of building a sovereign satellite-navigation system. The new network would ...

and students have furthered all aspects of satellite navigation technology from the antenna design, advanced radio processing, and the digital signal processing. This work initiated with the US Global ...

The Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is the European Unions (EU) version of GPS and is intended primarily for civilian use. Galileo consists of 30 satellites.

High-precision orbit and clock information is a basic requirement for precise positioning with Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) such as the American GPS or the European Galileo. Satellite ...

These factors have led to the development of a spate of satellite navigation systems being developed by other nation states. Russia’s GLONASS, the European Union’s Galileo, and China’s ...

The rocket is to bring on the orbit two Galileo FOC navigation satellites for the Galileo global navigation satellite system. The launch was initially scheduled for the night of December 2 but was ...

Launch recap: Scroll down for live coverage of the Saturday, April 27 liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Saturday, April 27 saw the launch of the European ...