November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
... that a ‘Carrington-level’ event today could cost the UK alone over £1 billion per day in lost Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) services. “We’re investing £160 million in Vigil because resilience starts with foresight – and right now...
June 2021
The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm
... the investment industry could be affected. Think, for example, about high-speed trading where the global navigation satellite systems are commonly used to place time stamps on financial transactions where precision timing is critical. A severe space...
July 2014
Achilles’ heel
...and grow the economy. So which services have become parts of national infrastructure? The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is an obvious example. Satellite networks provide the ability to allow instant credit card authorisation and automated...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
..., which is supported by the whole spectrum of existing space assets including the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), communication satellites, Earth observation systems, space probes and even CubeSats. Therefore, the operation of the whole...
03 June 2019
CEN and CENELEC to hold workshop on standards in space applications
..., space is already part of our daily life: from road navigation to geo-marketing, up to helping us locate friends on social...Space Strategy for Europe; the applications from the global navigation satellite system Galileo and EGNOS for road, rail, air ...
18 April 2023
Spire launches customers’ Earth and debris monitoring satellites
... hosts a hyperspectral camera with advanced on-board processing capabilities in combination with Spire’s Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) sensor payload that will collect intelligence on soil moisture. Data collected will...
