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December 3, 2018
Chris Hegarty – Never A Dull Moment

As anyone who’s been there knows, Boston is one of the best places in America for home-grown Italian cooking. And the city is…

By Peter Gutierrez


September 20, 2018
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Dr. Anna Jensen

From the Scandinavian farmlands to the hallowed halls of academia, Dr. Anna Jensen has traveled a remarkable road. She has now spent more…

By Peter Gutierrez


July 27, 2018
Brexit and Galileo – Plenty of Rumblings, but Where’s the Beef?

The UK seems well and truly on the path to leaving the European Union. The implications for the Galileo program are still unclear,…

By Peter Gutierrez


April 5, 2018
Munich Hot Licks: Satellite Navigation 2018

This year’s Munich Satellite Navigation Summit featured pointed debates on high accuracy, integrity and authentication, exploring the trade-off between GNSS performance and security….

By Peter Gutierrez


November 27, 2017
Fundamental Rethink for Galileo Commercial Service

At the lavish European Satellite Navigation Competition Awards Ceremony, we caught up with Carlo des Dorides, general director of the European GNSS Agency…

By Peter Gutierrez


July 28, 2017
Answering the Call for a GNSS Back-up

A government report commissioned by Innovate UK, along with the UK Space Agency and the Royal Institute of Navigation, entitled “Economic impact to…

By Peter Gutierrez


May 27, 2017
Galileo in the Here and Now

No longer consigned to predicting what might one day happen, the folks at the Galileo program can now look at and talk about…

By Peter Gutierrez


April 1, 2017
Bad clocks, Brexit and what’s happening at the European Space Policy Conference

Speakers at the 9th Annual Conference on European Space Policy wasted no time in addressing the somewhat worrying failure of several Galileo onboard…

By Peter Gutierrez


May 19, 2016
The “Brussels View” from Prague

Carlo des Dorides, GSA Executive Director Last October, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) Administrative Board reelected Carlo des Dorides as executive director of…

By Peter Gutierrez


January 19, 2016
Galileo Themes, Threads and Visions

Europe’s space community rang in the New Year with two of its brightest annual fixtures: the European Union (EU) Space Policy conference in…

By Peter Gutierrez


November 19, 2015
International Navigation Gathering Highlights GNSS Advances, Distractions

Speakers at the low-in-profile but high-in-content International Association of Institutes of Navigation (IAIN) conference in Prague this year threw into stark relief some…

By Peter Gutierrez


July 20, 2015
ESA and EC at Odds (Again) over Space Governance

At the European Economic and Social Committee’s Space & Society Conference, from left, Daniel Calleja Crespo, director general of European Commission’s DG Growth;…

By Peter Gutierrez


March 14, 2015
Seriously Seeking a Galileo Service Operator

Carlo des Dorides, El?bieta Bie?kowska Last January, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) announced a new invitation to tender for the role of Galileo…

By Peter Gutierrez


November 17, 2014
EU and Russia: Lost in Space?

Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine crisis has turned much of public opinion in the West against that country, in particular souring the relationship…

By Peter Gutierrez


May 6, 2014
It’s Spring, and EGNOS Is in the Air

Europe has been talking up its European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS, for short) — and why shouldn’t it? Talking about Galileo doesn’t…

By Peter Gutierrez


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