The launch of the first two operational satellites of the EU’s global navigation satellite system will take place on 20th October, the European Commission announced today. This is just the first of a ...

The European Union launched the first satellite in its Galileo navigation program on Wednesday, which European officials expect one day will end the continent’s reliance on the U.S. Global Positioning ...

Newly understood instrumentation readings returned in the 1990s from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in orbit of Jupiter have revealed that the craft not only encountered but also flew through ejecta plumes ...

The first two satellites of the EU’s Galileo programme for global satellite navigation will be launched on Thursday (20 October) from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guyana. The historical launch ...

Giove-B, the second and last test satellite, will test the atomic clock and signal transmission of Europe's troubled satellite navigation program. Jennifer Guevin was a managing editor at CNET, ...

The European Union Agency for the Space Program (EUSPA), in collaboration with the European Commission, has published a new version of the Galileo Open Service Signal in Space Interface Control ...

European Union governments agreed Friday to jointly complete the development of the much-delayed Galileo satellite navigation project after mollifying Spain, which had demanded a bigger stake in the ...

European Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot warned the industrial consortium negotiating a contract to run Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system June 15 that European governments were not ...

Europe is finally set to launch its alternative GPS network of 30 satellites. Currently the EU relies on the US owned GPS network which it has no control over. Galileo is set to be a non-military ...

The EU's Galileo satellite navigation system has been beset by delays and budget overruns in recent months, but its future is looking slightly brighter, now that its first two satellites are primed ...