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Galileo has provided positioning and timing services to around 400 million users since December 2016.
The Commission’s proposed 16,000,000,000 EUR budget for 2021–2027 included an indicative breakdown of 9,700,000,000 EUR for Galileo and EGNOS, 5,800,000,000 EUR for Copernicus, and 500,000,000 EUR for the Space and Situational Awareness program and the GOVSATCOM initiative.
Bleddyn Bowen, a lecturer in international relations at the University of Leicester, assessed that Britain could seek passive third-party access to Galileo PRS in a manner similar to how U.S. military allies use GPS.
Though Galileo is an EU program, it is operated by the European Space Agency, and the United Kingdom will remain a member of ESA after Brexit.
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.
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.
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.
Galileo was built through the European Space Agency and is managed by the European Commission.
There were 26 satellites in the Galileo constellation after the latest batch launched in July, though not all of those satellites are operational.
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.
The Galileo ground stations in the Falkland Islands and Ascension Island are connected only to the Galileo Mission Segment, not to the Galileo Control Segment managed by GMV.
GMV’s work on Galileo will include upgrading the ground control system architecture to manage up to 41 Galileo satellites.
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.
The four Galileo satellites launched in December 2017 remained in their testing phase after that launch.
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.
The four Galileo satellites launched on 2018-07-25 were deployed into a 23,000-kilometer medium-Earth orbit approximately four hours after liftoff.
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.
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.
Arianespace launched four Galileo satellites on 2018-07-25 from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.