The UK wing of the aerospace firm Astrium has won one of the final two contracts to have been awarded for Europe's Galileo GPS rival. Astrium will be paid €73.5m (£65.2m) for the "housekeeping" of the ...

Europe’s Galileo satellite network has been almost entirely offline since Thursday, according to the European GNSS Service Center. The Galileo network of satellites is Europe’s answer to the American ...

mUNICH — Trans-Atlantic industrial cooperation on the future satellite navigation systems being built in both Europe and the United States has been put in the deep freeze because of U.S.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted in part the European Commission’s request for a waiver of the commission’s rules so that non-federal devices in the United States may access ...

Companies are building the unmanned plane so it can operate immediately in the dense European airspace. (Sebastian Sprenger/Staff) ROME ― The long-awaited European medium-altitude long-endurance UAV ...

ESA plans to use its upcoming Lunar Pathfinder mission to experiment with expanding sat-nav coverage to the Moon. By tuning in to the radio signals leaking from the Galileo and GPS satellite ...

Back in December 2006, I wrote about the momentum of Galileo (Europe’s planned satellite navigation system) in an article discussing GNSS trends. Galileo has been discussed off and on for well over a ...

Galileo down: the European Union’s satellite navigation system has been down since Friday due to what has been described as “a technical incident.” Galileo signals can be used by the iPhone 8 and ...

GPS stands for "global positioning system," which is slightly ironic since it's owned and operated by the US Air Force. However, the FCC has just made a move to open up satellite navigation beyond ...

Spirent Communications announced the availability of its GSS7900 GPS/Galileo Simulation System. This system allows the testing of advanced multi-system GNSS receivers by supporting the free-to-use ...

u-blox AG, the leading Swiss provider of innovative GPS receiver technology, today announced the u-blox 5 family of GPS and Galileo-ready single chips and chipsets featuring an acquisition performance ...

After months of speculation, the British government has committed itself to developing an alternative satellite system if negotiations over the EU's Galileo system fail. The UK Space Agency has ...