GNSS News

  • 19 January 2021
    Autonomous driving on intelligent road at Europe’s edge
    An ESA-supported effort put an intelligent road up in Finnish Lapland through its paces, assessing its suitability for testing autonomous vehicles in some of Europe’s most challenging driving conditions.
  • 13 January 2021
    How far we've come: Galileo’s 500th ESA Engineering Board
    The end of 2020 marked a notable milestone for Europe’s Galileo First Generation, as the programme chalked up its 500th ESA Engineering Board.
  • 15 December 2020
    Galileo enhancing Sentinel-6’s sea level monitoring mission
    Just like your mobile phone, satellites themselves rely on satellite navigation to find their way in space. Thanks to a new ESA-developed receiver, the recently-launched Sentinel-6 is making use of Europe’s Galileo as well as the US GPS system, a fact set to sharpen the accuracy of its sea level rise measurements.
  • 04 December 2020
    Galileo satellites help rescue Vendée Globe yachtsman
    A sailor in the Vendée Globe solo round-the-world yacht race faced disaster in the Southern Ocean as raging waves pounded his vessel apart. But he was saved thanks to the search and rescue antennas aboard Europe’s Galileo satellites, part of the international Cospas-Sarsat rescue system.