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Every quarter, the Galileo Service Centre publishes Performance Reports on the Galileo Open Service (OS) and Search and Rescue (SAR) Service. These reports provide the public with statistics on the delivery and quality of the Galileo Services. Users can access quantitative information on a range of parameters specific to each service. This allows them to better understand how well the Galileo services are performing, relative to minimum targets specified in the service definitions.

The Galileo satellite GSAT0224 entered into service on 29 August. The satellite is named ‘Shriya’, after a Norwegian grade school student who won the Galileo drawing competition organised by the European Commission and the Norwegian Space Agency.

The Galileo almanac is a set of Keplerian parameters that allows to reconstruct satellite position coordinates only approximately, whilst having quite long period of validity compared to the so-called ephemeris coefficients. A coarse information about where the Galileo satellites are is necessary for the receiver or smartphone to know which satellites are potentially visible and therefore, it allows to reduce the time of their signal acquisition and subsequent tracking process. The almanacs are broadcast within the navigation message, and they can be also downloaded from the GNSS Service Center web site.

The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) is re-opening a testing campaign for INAV improvements implementation and hereby invites external stakeholders to express their interest in participating in such testing campaign.

The Galileo Open Service (OS) and the Enhanced Search and Rescue (SAR)/Galileo Service Performance Reports of the first quarter of 2022 (covering January, February, and March 2022) are available at the Electronic Library of the European GNSS Service Centre web portal.

A new ionospheric model (NTCM G), which can be used to correct single-frequency Galileo signals for ionospheric delay, is now available on the European GNSS Service Centre (GSC) website.

The Galileo programme offers electronic notifications for users about changes in the system status. Following the update of the Open Service SDD, issue 1.2,  and system performance improvements, Galileo users now benefit from more timely notification send-outs.

Galileo High Accuracy Service gets one step closer to the launch of initial services.

After a challenging Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) and Testing campaign during the pandemic times, Galileo satellite “Nikolina” (GSAT0223) is entering service provision as of today. The satellite will reinforce the performance and robustness of the EU’s satellite-based positioning system.

An initiative in the Netherlands leverages Galileo’s enhanced accuracy and positioning to conduct a comprehensive safety assessment of local bicycle paths.