The EU's much-delayed Galileo sat-nav network will begin operation in 2014, the European Commission said Thursday as it awarded key contracts to Germany's OHB System and France's Arianespace.
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Jan 7, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Galileo spacecraft began what would become a 14-year odyssey of exploration 20 years ago this Sunday, Oct. 18. Galileo was humanity's first emissary to orbit a planet in the outer solar system - Jupiter.
Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2009
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(AP) -- The European Union has unveiled an updated satellite navigation system that is up to five times more precise than the current GPS system.
Telecom
Oct 1, 2009
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The EU's much delayed satellite navigation network project Galileo has been ill-prepared and badly managed, the European Court of Auditors charged Monday.
Space Exploration
Jun 29, 2009
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Norway said Friday it will stump up close to 70 million euros in funding for the European Union's satellite navigation project Galileo.
Space Exploration
Apr 3, 2009
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Europe's Galileo is the world's most precise satellite navigation system, providing meter-level accuracy and very precise timing to its four billion users. An essential ingredient to ensure this stays the case are the atomic ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 13, 2023
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A grand odyssey of exploration is about to begin. Humankind's next bold mission to the outer solar system, ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is poised to explore giant planet Jupiter and its largest moons. These intriguing ...
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Feb 10, 2023
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Europe's Galileo satellite navigation constellation is set to grow. Later this year the first two out of 12 "Batch 3" Galileo satellites will be launched by Soyuz from French Guiana. Their last step on the way to launch is ...
Space Exploration
Jun 3, 2021
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A kite-blown science expedition to the interior of Antarctica has made the most southerly positioning fixes yet made with Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system.
Earth Sciences
Feb 4, 2019
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ESA's technical centre in the Netherlands has begun running a pulsar-based clock. The "PulChron' system measures the passing of time using millisecond-frequency radio pulses from multiple fast-spinning neutron stars.
Astronomy
Dec 28, 2018
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