GNSS News

  • 06 November 2019
    Satnav in the landscape harnessed for global error mapping
    There are more than five billion satnav devices on Earth. Along with smartphones and mobile receivers, this figure includes networks of fixed receiver stations, used to improve accuracy. An ESA-led project will harness these networks to provide an ongoing overview of satnav performance from the global to national and regional scale.
  • 04 October 2019
    Volunteer ‘Saved’ from North Sea in live Galileo rescue test
    Europe’s Galileo constellation is doing more than providing global navigation services, it is also saving lives. As a real life demonstration of Galileo’s search and rescue capability, a volunteer was cast away in a lifeboat off the Belgian coast, then activated an emergency beacon for rescue.
  • 01 October 2019
    ESA leads drive into our 5G positioning future
    A pair of testbed vehicles went out on the road in Germany to simulate the way we are all likely to be using 5G positioning services in the future. The field test focused on assessing the performance of highly-precise ‘hybrid’ satellite/terrestrial positioning for autonomous vehicles, drones, smart cities and the Internet of Things.
  • 24 September 2019
    Operation Shark Bait
    A volunteer set adrift on a life raft in the North Sea will start a live demonstration of the ESA-designed Galileo search and rescue system. Follow live from Ostend from 13:10 CEST (11:15 UTC) this Thursday.