News from ESA

  • 07 February 2019
    Four new Galileos join Europe’s largest satellite constellation
    The latest four Galileo satellites have been given the green light to begin working alongside the rest of Europe’s satellite navigation fleet, giving a further boost to worldwide Galileo service quality.
  • 04 February 2019
    Kite-blown Antarctic explorers make most southerly Galileo positioning fix
    A kite-blown science expedition to the interior of Antarctica has made the most southerly positioning fixes yet made with Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system.
  • 31 January 2019
    NAVISP fostering technologies for Europe’s new age of navigation
    At ESA, the field of navigation covers more than just Galileo and satnav-sharpening EGNOS. More than a hundred European experts attended the inaugural NAVISP workshop at ESA’s technical heart, to discuss current R&D on a huge range of navigation-related topics, from driverless boats to intelligent power lines.
  • 24 December 2018
    ESA sets clock by distant spinning stars
    ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands has begun running a pulsar-based clock. The ‘PulChron’ system measures the passing of time using millisecond-frequency radio pulses from multiple fast-spinning neutron stars.