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The Inuit WindSled is a multi-part sledge the size of a lorry, complete with mounted tents and solar power panels, pulled through the ice using a mammoth 150 sq. m. diameter kite. (Photo: Inuit WindSled via ESA)

Kite-blown Antarctic explorers make most southerly Galileo positioning fix

February 4, 2019

News from the European Space Agency A kite-blown science expedition to the interior of Antarctica has made the […]


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A re-configurable NASA receiver called the Space Communications and Navigation Testbed, SCaN is attached to the exterior of the ISS. In April 2018 the chest-sized SCaN, seen left of centre with an antenna on top, was used to make the first combined Galileo-GPS positioning fix in orbit. (Photo: NASA)

Combined orbital Galileo-GPS position fix achieved aboard ISS

July 2, 2018

A combined Galileo–GPS positioning fix has been achieved in space — aboard the International Space Station — through an ESA–NASA collaboration.


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ESA Recognizes First Galileo Navigation Fixes

June 23, 2014

Billions of satnav position fixes are performed daily, but determining your place in the world using Europe’s Galileo […]


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Javier Benedicto, ESA's Galileo Project Manager

Get a Galileo Position Fix? ESA Wants to Give You a Prize

March 14, 2014

Did you get a fix on four Galileo satellites? Then there could be a certificate in it for […]


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CNES Computes Real-Time Decimeter-Accuracy Orbits with Galileo

May 30, 2013

The first four Galileo satellites used for in-orbit validation were launched in October 2011 and October 2012.They are […]


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Figure 1. 2D position errors.

The System: Galileo Autonomous Fix, Indoor Nav Standards

April 1, 2013

Galileo Logs First Autonomous Fix; Galileo over Canada (By James T. Curran, Mark Petovello, and Gérard Lachapelle); and […]


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photo: Septentrio

Septentrio Makes Galileo and Four-Constellation Position Fixes

March 14, 2013

Septentrio became the first receiver manufacturer to report an autonomous real-time position calculation using Galileo IOV satellites, with […]


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Figure 1. Position fixes on the rooftop of the NavSAS lab in Turin, Italy.

First Galileo-Only Position Fix Performed!

March 12, 2013

Entitling its release “From Orbit with Love,” the European Space Agency (ESA) proudly announced today, March 12, 2013, […]


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