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The Inuit WindSled is a multi-part sledge the size of a lorry, complete with mounted tents and solar power panels, pulled through the ice using a mammoth 150 sq. m. diameter kite. (Photo: Inuit WindSled via ESA)

February 4, 2019

Kite-blown Antarctic explorers make most southerly Galileo positioning fix

By GPS World Staff

February 1, 2019

Registration opens for 2019 ESA-JRC Summer School

By GPS World Staff

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)

January 11, 2019

Galileo to receive global infrastructure upgrade

By Allison Kral

Javier Benedicto (left), Head of the Galileo Programme and Navigation-related Activities, European Space Agency, accepted the award and delivered these remarks on behalf of Giuliano Gatti (right). (Photo: ESA)

December 4, 2018

Benedicto accepts 2018 Satellites Leadership Award on behalf of Gatti

By GPS World Staff

One of Spire's Satellite Manufacturing Technicians (Tomasz Chanusiak) tests the Radio Frequency capabilities of a LEMUR2 nanosatellite in Spire's cleanroom in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo: ESA)

December 3, 2018

ESA’s Pioneer mission sends GNSS-RO nanosatellites into orbit

By GPS World Staff

ESA's GNSS Observation Network (EGON). (Image: ESA)

November 9, 2018

New ESA facility puts satnav at the service of science

By Tracy Cozzens

Contract signing: van Schaik (left) and Verhoef. (Photo: ESA)

October 19, 2018

Thales receives contract to upgrade Galileo ground segment

By GPS World Staff

Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system seen at work with commercially available Samsung S8+ smartphones. (Photo: ESA)

October 5, 2018

ESA launches new Galileo app competition

By Tracy Cozzens

September 17, 2018

GNSS Compare app now available for download

By Tracy Cozzens

The Galileo ground station near New Caledonia capital Nouméa incorporates a Galileo Sensor Station (foreground) that monitors the quality of navigation signals and an uplink station (background) to relay navigation corrections to the satellites for rebroadcast to users. An antenna 13 meters in diameter for controlling the satellites has also been built, ready to come online later this year. (Photo: ESA)

September 6, 2018

ESA awards Galileo ground control upgrade to GMV

By GPS World Staff

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