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, ...

A fully stand-alone, multi-frequency, multi-constellation receiver unit, the TUR-N can autonomously generate measurements, determine its position, and compute the Galileo safety-of-life integrity.

PARIS — The encrypted signals intended for use by European military and civil government authorities as part of Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system have been validated aboard the first two ...

Europe’s first Galileo satellite appears in blooming health, transmitting test signals received by ESA’s ground station in Redu, Belgium across the whole of its assigned radio spectrum. The first two ...

No audio available for this content. Europe’s two satellite navigation systems could combine in the future for heightened performance, an airborne test has confirmed. A helicopter flight took place ...

Launch of the second test satellite for the European Union and European Space Agency Galileo navigation system has been delayed to September. The Alcatel Alenia Space-built GIOVE-B Galileo in-orbit ...

ESA's Galileo satellites have achieved their very first aerial fix of longitude, latitude and altitude, enabling the inflight tracking of a test aircraft. ESA's four Galileo satellites in orbit have ...

Europe’s second test satellite for the Galileo navigation constellation has been placed in orbit by a Russian launch vehicle which lifted off from Kazakhstan yesterday. Launched from the Baikonur ...

Having failed to achieve their intended orbit following a launch in August 2014, a pair of ESA Galileo satellites are being re-tasked to test Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. More precisely, ...