Galileo

The Italian Space Agency (ASI) launched an initiative to create national "mirror programs" that provide supplemental spacecraft to European Commission-led programs such as Galileo, Govsatcom, and Copernicus.

OHB builds Europe’s Galileo satellites and supplies hardware for the Ariane 6 launch vehicle.

GMV secured a 3.5-year framework deal with Galileo worth a total of 250,000,000 EUR to upgrade and develop the ground control segment of the European satellite-based navigation and positioning system.

The European Union proposed a 16,000,000,000 EUR space budget for 2021 through 2027, primarily for the Copernicus and Galileo programs.

Scisys relocated its headquarters from Chippenham, England, to Ireland in 2018 to avoid losing space business on European Union programs, notably the Galileo navigation satellite constellation.

ESA will support maintaining a 16 billion-euro level for the EU multiannual financial framework to fund Copernicus and Galileo.

The European Commission ordered two Ariane 62 launches for Galileo in 2017 with launches initially slated for 2020 and 2021.

A budget draft published in 2018 proposed spending 16,000,000,000 EUR from 2021 through 2027 on EU space programs primarily for the Copernicus and Galileo programs.

On 2020-01-15, Jan Woerner prioritized negotiating a new cooperative agreement with the European Union regarding funding for the Copernicus Earth observation program and the Galileo satellite navigation program.

The European Commission agreed to a maximum space budget of 13,200,000,000 EUR for the next seven years focused mainly on continuing the Galileo and Copernicus satellite programs.

The approved European Commission space budget allocates 8,000,000,000 EUR for Europe’s Galileo global navigation satellite system.

OHB bested an Airbus and Thales Alenia Space consortium in 2011 to build the Galileo first-generation constellation and has been the prime contractor for the satellites since then.

The European Space Agency is preparing to select two companies to build the second generation of Galileo navigation satellites under contracts to be signed in early 2021.

OHB is building the final 12 Galileo first-generation satellites under ESA’s "Batch 3," which will sustain the constellation until the second-generation satellites are in orbit.

OHB has built 22 of the 26 Galileo satellites currently in orbit.

Galileo is 100% financed by the European Union with the European Space Agency acting as the implementing agency.

Galileo is financed 100% by the European Union with the European Space Agency as the implementing agency.

The European Commission planned a bulk procurement of Ariane 6 and Vega C vehicles during the 2021–27 budget to fulfill Galileo and Copernicus missions.

OHB partnered with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. for the current Galileo satellite contract, with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. providing the navigation payload.

The European Space Agency performed a two-month technical and financial evaluation and recommended awarding the next-generation Galileo contracts to Airbus and Thales.