Galileo is the European Union's Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), managed by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) with design and development by the European Space Agency (ESA). It provides highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning services under civilian control with improved positioning and timing information. Galileo offers various services, including an Open Service (OS) for mass-market use, a Search and Rescue (SAR) function, a High Accuracy Service (HAS), and a Public Regulated Service (PRS) for authorized users.
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One option under consideration is shifting the Galileo launches to Ariane 6.
Russia’s 2022-02-26 decision to halt Soyuz launches from French Guiana put five European missions in limbo, including two Galileo navigation satellite launches, ESA’s Euclid space observatory, the EarthCARE Earth science satellite, and a French reconnaissance satellite.
The 2022-02-26 Russian decision put five European missions in limbo: two Galileo navigation satellites, ESA’s Euclid space observatory, ESA’s EarthCARE Earth science satellite, and a French reconnaissance satellite.
The Astroscale-led consortium will review alternative means of uploading commands to satellites, including expanding ground station networks, data relays, and using a Galileo Signal-In-Space service.
Galileo is managed and funded by the European Union.
The Airbus second-generation Galileo spacecraft use a state-of-the-art all-electric medium-Earth orbit platform that reuses flight-proven building blocks from Airbus Telecoms and Earth Observation programs.
Europe’s Galileo navigation constellation had two pairs of satellites (Galileo 29,30 and Galileo 30,31) scheduled for Soyuz ST-B launches from the Guiana Space Centre in 2022.
Airbus is providing know-how to the Galileo second-generation project through over 200 highly skilled space engineers.
The Astroscale-led consortium will review alternative means of uploading commands to a satellite, including expanding ground station networks, data relays, and using a Galileo Signal-In-Space service.
The first second-generation Galileo satellite will be launched in 2024.
Each second-generation Galileo satellite weighs around 2,300 kg and is designed to operate for about 15 years.
Airbus successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review for its system concept for the second-generation Galileo navigation satellites.
A pair of Galileo navigation satellites for European institutional customers were scheduled to launch on Soyuz in April 2022 and were impacted by Russia’s suspension of Soyuz launches from French Guiana.
GeoOptics combines RO data derived from Galileo, GPS, and GLONASS to provide commercial radio occultation data.
Russia withdrew 87 employees of several Russian companies that support Soyuz launches in French Guiana, which will delay a planned April launch of two Galileo navigation satellites.
The Roscosmos decision will delay a Soyuz launch of two Galileo navigation satellites that had been scheduled for April 2022 from French Guiana.
A second pair of Galileo navigation satellites was scheduled to launch later in 2022 on another Soyuz from French Guiana.
A Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch a new pair of Galileo GNSS satellites for the EU Agency for the Space Programme from Europe’s Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana in the second quarter of 2022.
GeoOptics combines radio occultation data derived from Galileo, GPS, and GLONASS to offer commercial RO data.
The eight Galileo satellites from the EUSPA order will join the 28 Galileo satellites already deployed and the two Galileo satellites scheduled to be orbited in early 2022 from the Guiana Space Center by Arianespace.