Europe’s satellite navigation system Galileo is already in use worldwide, usable by itself or in combination with the U.S. GPS. Now a combined Galileo–GPS positioning fix has been achieved in space — ...

Europe’s Galileo satellite network has been almost entirely offline since Thursday, according to the European GNSS Service Center. The Galileo network of satellites is Europe’s answer to the American ...

The third and fourth satellites in Europe's Galileo constellation, a rival to the US GPS system, will be sent into space in September. European Commission vice president Antonio Tajani announced the ...

The launch of the Galileo test satellite marks another very significant and exciting day in the history of navigation. Just as competition between GPS manufacturers rapidly enhanced technology and ...

Companies are building the unmanned plane so it can operate immediately in the dense European airspace. (Sebastian Sprenger/Staff) ROME ― The long-awaited European medium-altitude long-endurance UAV ...

November 29, 2007 For the first time a signal from a Galileo satellite - the European alternative to GPS - has been captured after reflection off the ocean surface. The successful experiment carried ...

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PARIS — The European Commission’s argument that its Galileo satellite positioning, navigation and timing program is a hedge against the day when the U.S. government arbitrarily shuts off GPS — for ...

GPS stands for "global positioning system," which is slightly ironic since it's owned and operated by the US Air Force. However, the FCC has just made a move to open up satellite navigation beyond ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has provided $466 million in funding for a European version of the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) called Galileo, a move that could eventually lead to development ...