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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

MUNICH, Germany — Only one week after the first satellite in the Galileo network has transmitted its first operational navigation signals, the entire project could face a complete re-launch: ...

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 ...