Protective "radome" housing for the Galileo ground station on desolate Jan Mayen Island in the Norwegian Arctic. The site is housing a Galileo Sensor Station plus satellite link to pass data back to the Galileo ground system (Photo: ESA/Fermin Alvarez Lopez)

Galileo to receive global infrastructure upgrade

January 11, 2019

News from the European Space Agency The European Space Agency (ESA) has received approval from the Galileo Security […]

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Satellites and rocket readied for July 25 Galileo launch

June 18, 2018

Four more Galileo satellites will be launched on a customized Ariane 5 on July 25. The next Arianespace […]

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One of two Galileo satellites being driven by truck to the Guiana Space Centre inside its container. Galileo satellites 23 and 24 left Luxembourg Airport on a Boeing 747 cargo jet on the morning of May 4, arriving at Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport in French Guiana that evening. (Photo: ESA)

Galileo pair arrive at spaceport for July launch

May 10, 2018

News from the European Space Agency The next two satellites in Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system have arrived […]

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