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Celeste becomes the name of ESA’s LEO-PNT mission, that will "mediate: between Galileo and the rest of the world. The name was announced during the celebration of 30 years of European satellite navigation, in September 2025 with two actors enacting a fictional conversation between Galileo Galilei and his imagined great granddaughter Celeste, a satellite navigation engineer working at the ESA. (Credit: ESA / M. Polo)

ESA’s Celeste LEO-PNT demonstrator mission set to launch in December

September 8, 2025

The European Space Agency has confirmed plans to launch the first two satellites in its low-Earth orbit (LEO) positioning navigation and timing (PNT) constellation in the second half of December 2025.


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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)

CGI joins with Thales on Galileo security software

May 3, 2019

CGI has signed an agreement with Thales Alenia Space France to enhance and maintain security software for the Galileo […]


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