Next GPS IIF in October The next GPS satellite, Block IIF-3 (SVN65), scheduled to be launched on October 4, will be positioned in orbital slot 1, which is in plane A. This slot is currently occupied b...
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By Richard B. Langley, Simon Banville, and Peter Steigenberger. For a brief period, and for a few hours on certain days, signals from the first four orbiting Galileo satellites could be received by st...
Read More →Galileo Flight Model #3 (FM3) is readied for the satellite’s fit check on the dispenser that will carry it and FM4 in a parallel arrangement on Soyuz’ next launch. The silver-colored dispe...
Read More →News courtesy of CANSPACE Listserv. After more than four years of service as a Galileo test-bed satellite, GIOVE-B was retired on July 23. Its navigation transmitters were switched off and, acc...
Read More →The third Galileo In-Orbit Validation flight model satellite being unloaded from its Antonov 124-100 transport aircraft at Cayenne Airport in French Guiana on August 7. The next Galileo navigation sat...
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Unmanned aerial vehicles and civil aircraft may co-habit the airspace after September 2015. As the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) moves ahead with plans for unmanned aerial syst...
Read More →A team of Canadian and German researchers have obtained precise three-dimensional positions using measurements from the four prototype Galileo satellites now in orbit. The two In-Orbit Validation (IOV...
Read More →Artist’s impression of GIOVE-A in orbit. (Photo by ESA – P. Carril) With the initial satellites of the Galileo constellation working well in orbit, it has been decided to end the mission ...
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