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 ...

As well as providing global navigation services, Europe’s Galileo satellite constellation is contributing to saving more than 2,000 lives annually by relaying SOS messages to first responders. And ...

Since the start of the Ukraine conflict, there have been periodic disruptions of Europe’s Galileo GPS network—attacks that have almost all been traced to Russia. The European Union runs its own ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple Maps, Waze, etc. will know just where you are thanks to Europe’s Galileo satellite system. Photo: European GNSS Agency Phones and other devices located in the U.S. are now permitted to access ...

GPS isn't the only navigation system around. The European Space Agency (ESA) is developing the Galileo Navigation System for the European Union. Unlike GPS, it will be under civilian control. But the ...

U.S. negotiators believe the groundwork has been laid for an agreement with their European counterparts to deconflict Galileo and GPS radio frequencies and address other issues regarding the emerging ...

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 ...