The UK wing of the aerospace firm Astrium has won one of the final two contracts to have been awarded for Europe's Galileo GPS rival. Astrium will be paid €73.5m (£65.2m) for the "housekeeping" of the ...

LONDON — The two consortiums formed to build Europe's Euros 3.2billion Galileo satellite navigation system are being urged to pool their resources and bid as a team to construct the global position ...

Global positioning system (GPS) functionality is quickly becoming a major market driver for consumer electronics applications, emerging as a primary differentiator in next-generation systems. The ...

ESA plans to use its upcoming Lunar Pathfinder mission to experiment with expanding sat-nav coverage to the Moon. By tuning in to the radio signals leaking from the Galileo and GPS satellite ...

Competing EU and US systems will send common open signal After several years of negotiations the European Union and the USA have resolved the remaining legal and procedural differences between their ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), and Galileo Satellite Navigation, Ltd. (GSN), a developer of multi-system Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) ...

The European Union and the U.S. Thursday announced a breakthrough in their efforts to make Galileo and GPS (global positioning system), their respective satellite navigation systems, interoperable.

The Navigation Support Office at the Mission Control Centre of the European Space Operations Center (ESOC) has been tasked with providing independent precise orbit determination for European space ...

Galileo, the European Union’s answer to GPS experienced a major outage beginning July 11, and remains offline as of this posting on July 15. According to a report by the BBC, the cause is a "technical ...

The EU and the US have put the finishing touches to a system designed to enable signals from their respective satellite navigation systems to be picked up on the same receiver device in future. A ...

There must be some compelling reason for the European Space Agency (ESA) to be planning to spend $3.28 billion on the Galileo satellite navigation system, which appears to be totally redundant to GPS.