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The launch of SAT 33 and SAT 34 will be Galileo’s inaugural launch on the Ariane 6.
On July 24, 2025, Galileo officially became the first global navigation system to provide open authentication to its users.
LuGRE received GNSS and Galileo signals in dual frequency during its journey to the Moon and after landing, achieving a new distance record of up to 400,000 kilometers from Earth.
The Hubble Space Telescope went on its first mission almost 400 years after Galileo improved the telescope design in 1609.
Galileo's 27 operational satellites represent the largest single contribution to the MEOSAR segment of Cospas-Sarsat.
Galileo engineers developed a positioning signal intended to be acquired with lower computational complexity to serve IoT and snapshot devices.