GSA, EuroControl Sign Agreement on GNSS for Aviation
September 15, 2014
In the presence of the European Commission, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) and EuroControl have signed a new cooperation […]
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In the presence of the European Commission, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) and EuroControl have signed a new cooperation […]
The year 2014 is most certainly the Year of Galileo.
After rising up from near elimination in 2008 due to much confusion about how to fund it, the European Union, that same year, decided to allocate 3.4 billion euros to fund the ground infrastructure and the initial satellites. Unlike the U.S. GPS and Russian GLONASS systems, Galileo is civilian-funded as opposed to being funded primarily from defense budgets, which makes it politically much more difficult to gain funding. But, they did it.
That was six years ago.
The wording is terse, the intent clear. “Following the failure on Friday August 22nd to inject Galileo satellites […]
Soyuz Flight VS09, carrying Europe’s fifth and sixth Galileo satellites, lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French […]
UPDATE: The next launch attempt for Soyuz VS09 with Europe’s fifth and sixth Galileo satellites is Friday, August […]
UDPATE: After a one-day postponement, The fifth and sixth Galileo satellites were successfully launched and deployed. UPDATE: Arianespace has […]
This video by the European Space Agency recalls the success of Galileo’s in-orbit validation phase and explains what […]
The special significance of next Thursday’s launch for the Galileo system as a whole is highlighted in a […]
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