Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Speaking at the 2024 ESA Director General’s Annual Press Briefing in Paris, the agency’s Director of Navigation Javier Benedicto provided an update on ESA satellite navigation activities. About the LEO PNT (Low Earth Orbit, Positioning, Navigation and Timing) program, he said, “We have completed the procurement process for this, one of our flagship programs, approved by the [ESA] ministerial conference in November 2022.
By Peter Gutierrez
As international space agencies work to develop lunar PNT capabilities, exploration efforts have become more diverse and collaborative than ever before. The Moon is now an international exploration priority, with GNSS critical to lunar PNT development.
By Renee Knight
ESA intends to extend the NAVISP program. The fourth phase of the program, to be dubbed NAVISP Next, will be officially proposed for approval at the next ESA the Ministerial Conference in 2025.
By Peter Gutierrez
The European Space Agency (ESA) is calling for proposals for missions to the Moon that can leverage existing resources such as Moonlight program lunar communications and navigation services.
By Peter Gutierrez
A European Space Agency (ESA)-backed initiative is using high-quality satellite navigation data to improve the precision of weather forecasting. The data is provided by voluntary users of the CAMALIOT app on Android smartphones. As of this writing, almost 13,000 users have uploaded more than 260 billion measurements, amassing a vast dataset covering the entire globe.
By Peter Gutierrez
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has certified Madrid-based ESSP (European Satellite Services Provider) as a pan-European Communication Services Provider for Iris data link services.
By Peter Gutierrez
The European Space Agency (ESA) recently awarded GMV with a contract worth more than €200 million to develop the ground control segment for in-orbit control and validation of Galileo Second Generation (G2G) satellites.
By Inside GNSS
The ESA-funded SSRoverDAB+ project delivered its final results in June 2023.
By Peter Gutierrez
The European Space Agency (ESA) low Earth orbit (LEO)-PNT satellite program, approved at last year’s (2022) ESA ministerial conference, will soon begin testing a mini-constellation of at least ten satellites, placed in orbit some hundreds of kilometers above the Earth’s surface. Conventional GNSS systems, like those used by Europe’s Galileo program, utilize medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellites, about 23,000 kilometers from Earth.
By Peter Gutierrez
GMV NSL Ltd and Thales Alenia Space have presented the results of the NAVISP EL1 034 project, ‘AI-Enabled Baseband Algorithms For High-Fidelity Measurements’ (AlnGNSS). Using selected AI-enabled algorithms, the project demonstrated some significant improvements in PVT performance compared to conventional GNSS PVT methods. However, the overall impact of AI was not substantial.
By Peter Gutierrez
Galileo Second Generation (G2) has officially entered into its Orbit Validation development phase.
By Inside GNSS
This year’s European Navigation Conference (ENC), hosted by the Netherlands Institute of Navigation, will be held from May 31 to June 2 at the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ESTEC site in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, where the Galileo satellite system is designed and European navigation satellites undergo final testing.
By Inside GNSS
Businesspeople, politicians, civil servants and a range of engineers and researchers gathered in Brussels for the 15th European Space Conference in January. Topics were many and varied, with war, dependency, resilience and a big-time launcher crisis heading the list.
By Peter Gutierrez
GMV is selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development of the Galileo Second Generation System Test Bed (G2STB)
The G2STB is one of the Key infrastructure elements that ESA is developing for the correct functioning of the Galileo second generation satellites
By Inside GNSS
EUSPA has published a new report, EU Space for Green Transformation, aimed at helping companies assess their own environmental performance and take actions in line with EU Green Deal targets.
By Peter Gutierrez
