21 May 2018
UK proposes ambitious national defence space strategy
... industry and our defence scientists and military personnel have played a central role in the development of the EU’s Galileo satellite programme alongside British companies, so it is important we also review our contribution and how we plan for...
23 June 2021
ESA and EU embark on a new space programme
...the continuity and reinforces the very successful flagships such as Galileo, Copernicus and EGNOS, that were designed by ESA, ... two decades, ESA successfully developed Copernicus and the Galileo and EGNOS satellite navigation systems. Copernicus is a...
10 April 2019
Brexit high noon for UK space industry
..., post-Brexit." British involvement in the European Galileo global navigation satellite system has been one of the... the possible roles the UK could retain in the deployment of Galileo, ending in an announcement from UK Prime Minister Theresa May in...
18 October 2021
Netherlands creates international space hotspot
... Campus that is part of ESA’s technical heart, the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), the Galileo Reference Centre (GRC - EUSPA), SBIC Noordwijk and Space Expo is being created in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. With...
19 November 2015
Einstein's theory to be tested by Galileo satellites
... ground by a few tenths of a microsecond per day – enough to give errors of around 10 km per day on a navigation satellite. Galileo satellites will effectively provide the first opportunity since 1976 to further confirm Einstein's theory and provide...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
...minds, like Kepler, though that light simply travelled instantaneously. Galileo suggested placing lanterns on distant hilltops to time light’s ...LLRE) left on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts. Galileo’s discovery of Io, the most volcanic body in the ...
