GNSS News

  • 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.
  • 20 September 2019
    New maps of Earth from reflected satnav. invented at ESA
    Your phone or satnav receiver routinely picks up signals from navigation satellites in order to tell you precisely where you are. But have you ever thought what happens to those satnav signals afterwards? A foresighted ESA inventor had the idea of using them as a tool for observing the Earth.