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Innovation: One Year in Orbit   September 1, 2009
By: Christian Kurzhals,Maktar Malik,Manuela Rapisarda,Matthias Söllner,Michael Meurer,Stefan Erker,Steffen Thölert,Wolfgang Kogler

GIOVE-B has now been in orbit for just over one year. How well is it performing? In particular, what can we say about one of GIOVE-B’s pioneering features: its E1 CBOC signal? In this month’s column, we take a detailed look at a particular monitoring and assessment program set up to examine the...more >>

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Meet GIOVE-A   May 1, 2007
By: Andrew Bradford,Elizabeth Rooney,Giuliano Gatti,Giuseppe Mandorlo,Maktar Malik,Martin Unwin,Philip Davies,Valter Alpe

Galileo satellites must operate in a harsh environment more than 20,000 kilometers above the Earth, through the intense Van Allen electron belt. Key team members describe the design, manufacture, launch, and commissioning of the demonstration satellite GIOVE-A.

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Meet GIOVE-A   May 1, 2007
By: Andrew Bradford,Elizabeth Rooney,Giuliano Gatti,Giuseppe Mandorlo,Maktar Malik,Martin Unwin,Philip Davies,Valter Alpe

Galileo satellites must operate in a harsh environment more than 20,000 kilometers above the Earth, through the intense Van Allen electron belt. Key team members describe the design, manufacture, launch, and commissioning of the demonstration satellite GIOVE-A.