The technology depends on the signals for satellite navigation, called global positioning systems or GPS are increasingly threatened by hackers, experts say. ... Read more
The control center of Galileo, the European GPS system, will move to Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 2013. ... Read more
If Praha becomes the head office of the Galileo project, Czech Space business gains new momentum. At least in the last four years, occasionally dusted off the idea of "Galileo in Prague. ... Read more
In the last ministerial meeting of ESA in November 2008, Spain committed a contribution of 677 million Euros for 2009-2011. This consolidated Spain as the fifth largest country in Europe to its contribution to the European Space Agency. ... Read more
It sounds a bit like science fiction: A tractor driver could in the future without a field down to the exact centimeter manure. ... Read more
It's been a long time coming, but at last it looks like Europe's faltering efforts to build a satellite navigation system to rival America's GPS is ready for take-off. ... Read more
German OHB Technology should be entrusted with the manufacture of satellites of the Galileo project. ... Read more
The company Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) December 28, 2009 celebrated the 4 th anniversary of Sputnik launch GIOVE-A, became the first big step in the development of the European Satellite Navigation Program Galileo. ... Read more
The engineering model of the first operational satellite of the Galileo completed integration tests of platform, at the premises of Thales Alenia Space in Rome. ... Read more
According to unconfirmed reports, the European Commission (EC) and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a contract for eight satellites Galileo (the European GPS system) with a company from Germany - OHB Technology. However, this information, in private conversation, denied and rejected the representative of EC.The consortium, led by OHB includes a small company dealing satellites, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. which To be contracts to build the next batch of satellites Galileo. built and continues to work with the satellite GIOVE-A, the first satellite of Galileo. Opponent OHB, a consortium Astrium-Thales Alenia created a second satellite Galileo, GIOVE-B. ... Read more
Launched ten years ago, Galileo has experienced many ups and downs ... and still counting. After difficult negotiations with the United States to impose Galileo, the failure of public-private partnership for the deployment and operation of the program, the divisions on dual-use - civilian and military - and the technical difficulties encountered during development and in-orbit validation of Galileo, the EU now sees China compromise his ambition to issue encrypted signals, while fiscal slippages ahead ... The time is now more than ever the mobilization behind the Commission, whose task is arduous and unusual. ... Read more
A Spanish physicist wins the prize for best application for the Galileo system. Only one of 300 projects from 30 countries attending the sixth edition of the competition for satellite navigation systems, Galileo Masters could take first prize. And the winner was the Spanish osmógrafo physicist Joseph Caro. The device uses geolocation technology to rescue people with dogs. ... Read more
Vienna - The previously troubled satellite navigation project Galileo, planned as the European answer to the U.S. system "GPS", it seems, according to the scientific journal Nature to win "on the ground. The optimism is shared by some experts quoted, is nourished by the fact that EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, the project in the previous week officially and publicly declared his support. Increased cooperation in satellite navigation and telematics, however, strive to Austria, Czech Republic, Bavaria and Piedmont. ... Read more
The European aerospace Galileo project is on track. Scheduled to be operational by 2010, satellite positioning system was designed to end dependence on the U.S. system GPS or Global Positioning System. The latter emerged in a context of the Cold War and is controlled by the military. This means that in case of conflict, the United States could restrict access to GPS to strategic reasons. Washington has not seen a good eye for the Galileo project and tried to prevent its realization, without success. ... Read more
The Galileo project, whose goal is to provide Europe with a satellite navigation system to not depend on GPS, has been badly managed, according to the Court of Auditors of the European Union (EU), which emphasizes the backlog and the additional costs of the initiative. ... Read more
European Space Agency (ESA) and space launch company Arianespace signed a contract on Monday to launch four test satellite for Europe satellite navigation system Galileo. The satellites will be launched in pairs, the two Union ships, set up in Russia, with the ESA spaceport in Kourou, in Guiana, in the second half of 2010. ... Read more
Astrium sees the risks of further price increases and delays in the Galileo satellite navigation project. ... Read more
Bilbao, June 10 (EFE) .- Basque companies collaborating on the international project to define a navigation system called Galileo, which serves as an alternative to GPS, as reported today by the Basque Cluster of Electronics, Information and Telecommunications (GAIA ). Several of these companies have traveled to Rome to participate in the coming days at a reunion of participants in this project, promoted by the European Union in cooperation with other countries such as China or India. ... Read more
The General Directorate for Energy and Transport European Commission has launched a bid to support the activities of standardization of the global satellite navigation system Galileo satellites. ... Read more
On Friday it became known that Norway will join the project satellite navigation system of the European Union's Galileo. Sylvia Brustad said the country that attaches great importance to the European space program, despite the fact that Norway is not a member of the EU, and believes that participation in the Galileo project will help in the future, the Norwegian firms in the competitive struggle. ... Read more
The European Community wants to expand its satellite system and therefore has the EGNOS infrastructure purchased. The 'European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service is considered the precursor of the positioning and monitoring system Galileo. ... Read more
China crosses the European plans for the construction of the satellite navigation system Galileo. In developing its own global system with the English name of the Chinese Compass have the same radio frequency reserved for the transmission as the Europeans. Through this overlap could be the safety-related part of the European project will be virtually useless, experts warn. ... Read more
SES Astra has been awarded a contract by the EU for the navigation service Egnos. The regional system is to improve the accuracy of GPS and later on of Galileo. ... Read more
Galileo is completely different, although it is satellite, it is designed and built from the outset for a use that requires high reliability, control and effectively worldwide. The GPS is a military system controlled by the armed forces, covering their needs for reliability at a given moment in a given area, but not necessarily always and everywhere. In particular, Galileo is designed for use in civil air navigation and eliminate existing restrictions on the ways of heaven. ... Read more
Switzerland intends to continue at the EU's Galileo satellite navigation program and Egnos participate. Until now, Switzerland, through its membership of the European Space Agency (ESA) in the programs involved. Now the responsibility for the joint project of ESA and the EU gradually be transferred to the latter. ... Read more
Several Canadian geomatics experts have expressed confidence that Galileo, the European satellite navigation GPS alternative to the U.S., work and in 2013, once the financial problems and after the European Space Agency has taken over management. ... Read more
Prague - The government today approved the introduction of the forthcoming Galileo satellite system to the government. At a press conference after today's meeting the Government's transport minister said Petr Bendl.Secured service system has to absorb the police, army and secret services.... Read more
China will, according to the state news agency Xinhua, significantly expand its satellite navigation system Compass (formerly Beidou). We can expect more than 30 Chinese navigation satellites to be positioned in space by 2015. In the next two years China is looking to raise the number of its satellites from 5 to 10 said the space-director of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), Zhang Xiaojin, on Sunday in the state television. ... Read more
Britain, according to media reports, Russia's ambassador to the EU Vladimir Qinuo Fu said on November 12, the European Union and Russia should develop a new global navigation system on co-operate to the United States and GPS global positioning system competition. ... Read more
Galileo's second experimental satellite, GIOVE-B, was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday April 26, 2008. The Galileo In-Orbit-Validation Element (GIOVE) mission comprises two experimental satellites, the first of which - GIOVE-A - was launched in December 2005. ... Read more
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