News from ESA

  • 15 June 2018
    ESA trainees compete in inaugural Galileo app contest
    ESA challenged its young graduate and national trainees to develop a smartphone app to perform satnav fixes using only Galileo satellites. Three teams developed apps in their spare time, presenting their results to a jury of experts from ESA, the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA) and Google.
  • 07 June 2018
    Galileo, inside out
    Technology image of the week: an entire Galileo satellite was taken apart then put back together on this test bench for laboratory testing
  • 05 June 2018
    Next two Galileos plus launcher at Europe’s Spaceport for July launch
    Galileo satellites 25 and 26 have landed at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, joining their two predecessors ahead of their 25 July launch by Ariane 5.
  • 01 June 2018
    Watch Galileo app contest
    ESA challenged its trainees to develop a smartphone app to perform Galileo-only satnav positioning. Watch the results today from 930 CEST