The Galileo satellite system is a £8bn navigation project intended to rival the US-controlled Global Positioning System. Once fully operational in 2020 it will provide accurate position ...

Together with precise optical ranging between selected satellites, this provides orbit determination capabilities with unprecedented accuracy. The Kepler infrastructure thus consists of three main ...

The Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is the European Unions (EU) version of GPS and is intended primarily for civilian use. Galileo consists of 30 satellites.

and students have furthered all aspects of satellite navigation technology from the antenna design, advanced radio processing, and the digital signal processing. This work initiated with the US Global ...

681-7 (10/09) "Propagation data required for the design of Earth-space land mobile telecommunication systems" In autumn 2002 the German Aerospace Center (DLR) carried out a high resolution measurement ...

The partial failure of its NVS-02 navigation satellite on Sunday was the latest in a series of setbacks suffered by the ...

More information: Xingxing Li et al, Determination of global geodetic parameters using satellite laser ranging to Galileo, GLONASS, and BeiDou satellites, Satellite Navigation (2024). DOI: 10.1186 ...

India successfully launched into orbit on Wednesday a new navigation satellite aboard a home-grown rocket, strengthening its ...

Here are seven nations that dominate the satellite game, powering global communication, defence, and research from space.