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The first two of the 12 Batch 3 Galileo first-generation satellites are expected to launch on an Arianespace Soyuz in 2021.
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 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.
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.
At least half of ArianeGroup’s transition batch of 14 Ariane 6 rockets are dedicated to European government customers, including six for the European Commission’s Galileo satellites and one for the French military’s Composante Spatiale Optique-3 imaging satellite.
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.
Jan Woerner, director general of the European Space Agency, supports maintaining the original 16,000,000,000 EUR budget for 2021–2027 to fund Copernicus and Galileo joint programs with the EU.
The European Union contributes 23 percent of ESA’s 2020 budget to cover work on the Copernicus Earth observation program and the Galileo satellite navigation system.
ESA will support maintaining a 16 billion-euro level for the EU multiannual financial framework to fund Copernicus and Galileo.
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.
The European Union proposed a 16,000,000,000 EUR space budget for 2021 through 2027, primarily for the Copernicus and Galileo programs.
Some startups creating applications that use data from Europe’s Galileo and Copernicus spacecraft already employ artificial intelligence.
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.
OHB builds Europe’s Galileo satellites and supplies hardware for the Ariane 6 launch vehicle.
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.
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.
The European Commission is the first government customer expected to procure an Ariane 6 launch to place Galileo satellites into orbit.
European public entities have purchased three Ariane 6 missions: two from the European Commission for Galileo navigation satellites and one from France for the CSO-3 military imaging satellite.