Tests begin of Galileo’s OSNMA signal authentication service
February 11, 2021
In a first for any satellite navigation system, Galileo has achieved the first position fix based on navigation […]
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In a first for any satellite navigation system, Galileo has achieved the first position fix based on navigation […]
In response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the test campaign for the first two satellites of Galileo’s Batch […]
The UN ICG group visited ESTEC on May 16 during a meeting in the Netherlands. News from the […]
Each Galileo satellite must go through a rigorous test campaign to assure its readiness for the violence of […]
News by the European Space Agency Europe’s latest Galileo was unboxed at ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands […]
The 28th Satellite-based Augmentation Systems Interoperability Working Group endorsed the “message definition” for a new secondary SBAS channel — to be known as L5, along with the current L1 — for the planned second-generation SBAS systems, which will utilize dual-frequency multi-constellation signals.
The latest Galileo satellite has arrived at ESTEC and is undergoing a full checkout to prove its readiness for space. The satellite was carried by lorry from its manufacturer in Germany, cocooned within an environmentally controlled container. It arrived inside ESTEC’s cleanroom environment on Dec. 18.
Galileo’s fifth satellite — recently salvaged from the wrong orbit to begin navigation testing — has been combined with three predecessors to provide its very first position fix.
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