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Retired GIOVE-A could help GPS reach even higher heights

In June 2012, the SSTL-built GIOVE-A satellite was retired after an impressive 6 years of service broadcasting prototype Galileo signals.

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12 December 20120 Comments0 Comments

Milestone for European GNSS pathfinder GIOVE-A

It’s now five years since Space Blog reported on GIOVE-A transmitting its first signals for the European GNSS system. The first validation satellite GIOVE-A, was launched in December 2005 by a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, and is still working well five years after the satellite paylo...

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12 January 20110 Comments0 Comments

Galileo satellite's 4th birthday today

SSTL is celebrating the 4th anniversary of the launch of its historic GIOVE-A satellite today. As the first of the Galileo In Orbit Validation Element satellites, GIOVE-A was the first step in Europe's visionary Galileo satellite navigation programme when it was launched on December 28th 2005. ...

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28 December 20090 Comments0 Comments

Galileo satellite progress from Paris

Gaileo is turning out to be a hot topic at this year's Paris Air Show. On the 15th June ESA and Arianespace signed a contract for the launch of the first four operational Galileo satellites on two Soyuz launch vehicles from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Also this week, ESA and the OHB/SS...

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18 June 20090 Comments0 Comments

SSTL gets Galileo award

The Galileo team here at SSTL have been presented with an award by the European Space Agency (ESA) that acknowledges the successful GIOVE A mission and its outstanding contribution to the success of the Galileo programme. The award was presented by Didier Faivre of ESA’s Galileo Directorate to El...

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20 October 20080 Comments0 Comments

Second Galileo satellite on track

SSTL’s second Galileo contract, GIOVE-A2, has progressed through a successful Critical Design Review (CDR). The small satellite is a follow-on mission to the successful GIOVE-A mission launched two years ago. The two-day CDR meeting, attended by ESA representatives at SSTL’s headquarters in ...

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03 January 20080 Comments0 Comments

Galileo signal reflections monitor ocean weather

A pioneering experiment was launched onboard UK-DMC in 2003, that uses signals reflected from the GPS signals already in orbit to monitor the weather at sea. The joint team experiment team, comprising SSTL and the University of Surrey members has now succeeded for the first time in capturing a ...

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28 November 20070 Comments0 Comments

Competition to curb Galileo costs and timescales

SSTL’s Group Executive Chairman, Sir Martin Sweeting stated in a press release today that he believes the increased competition resulting from the June proposal by the European Commission to fund the Galileo satellite navigation system through the public sector will reduce the cost and risk invol...

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14 September 20070 Comments0 Comments

GIOVE-A transmits first navigation message

Earlier this week, the SSTL built GIOVE-A satellite successfully transmitted its first navigation message, containing the information needed by user receivers to calculate their position. Prior to reaching this milestone, the satellite had been broadcasting only the data needed for measuring the ...

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08 May 20070 Comments0 Comments

GIOVE-A transmits first Galileo signals for Europe

Technical update - Europe's first Galileo navigation signals were transmitted from space by the GIOVE-A satellite at 17:25 GMT this afternoon 12th January. The satellite payload was commanded 'on' from the SSTL Mission Control Centre and the Gal...

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13 January 20060 Comments0 Comments

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