Galileo

Galileo's high-precision service has been available since 2023 and provides compatible receivers with horizontal accuracy up to 20 centimeters and vertical accuracy up to 40 centimeters.

Arianespace scheduled its next mission for July 2018 to launch four Galileo navigation satellites for the European Commission and the European Space Agency.

The U.K. has contributed £1,200,000,000to the Galileo program and provided ground infrastructure in the Falklands and on Ascension Island.

The European Commission plans to allocate 9,700,000,000 EUR to the Galileo and European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) satellite navigation systems for 2021–2027.

The first two Batch 3 Galileo satellites are expected to launch at the end of 2020.

Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, a U.K.-based subsidiary of Airbus, built Galileo’s navigation payload and will provide the navigation payload for the next 12 Batch 3 satellites.

End-of-2017 data showed that 186 million Galileo-enabled smartphones had been produced and shipped.

Bremen, Germany-based OHB Systems AG built the Galileo satellites launched on 2018-07-25 and will continue as prime contractor for the Batch 3 satellites.

Arianespace launched four Galileo satellites on 2018-07-25 from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.

The four Galileo satellites launched on 2018-07-25 were expected to come online in January or 2019-02-01.

Contracts for the Batch 4 Galileo satellites are planned to be signed at the end of 2019.

Arianespace is under contract to launch the first two pairs of Batch 3 Galileo satellites using the Ariane 6 rocket in 2020 and 2021.

The British government will spend more than $100,000,000 to study whether the country should develop its own satellite navigation system as an alternative to Europe’s Galileo.

GMV’s work on Galileo will include upgrading the ground control system architecture to manage up to 41 Galileo satellites.

GMV won a 250,000,000 EUR contract in September to maintain and upgrade the ground control system for Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation fleet over the next three years.

GMV of Spain received a 250,000,000 EUR Galileo contract in September 2018 for parts of the Galileo ground segment focused on satellite controls.

Thales Alenia Space received a 324,000,000 EUR contract from the European Space Agency on 2018-10-18 to develop new ground segment and security systems for the Galileo satellite navigation system.

The British government announced it would spend £92 million from a Brexit readiness fund to study the prospects for building an independent alternative to Galileo.

Galileo has provided positioning and timing services to around 400 million users since December 2016.

The European Commission proposed a 16,000,000,000 EUR space budget for 2021 to 2027 that includes funding for Galileo, Copernicus, and other programs.