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Galileo Project 'hindering' Phone Sat-nav Rollout
News Europe's upcoming satellite constellation, Galileo, is becoming a barrier to the integration of satellite navigation into European handsets, a mobile operator claimed last week. According to Ian Curran, head of telematics and machine-to-machine...
[January 22, 2007, 10:44]
Galileo Gives Europe A Superior Location
Leader Congratulations to Guildford-based Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, the university spin-off company blazing the way for Europe's Galileo navigation system. One of the reasons that the US government was so keen to fund the system was that it could...
[January 16, 2006, 14:55]
Galileo: A Simulation Tool For Traffic On Leo Satellite Constellations - Presentation Of The Architecture
White Papers We hope to provide a performance evaluation of various constellation access techniques and routing policies.The simulator, named GaliLEO, will be written in Java and will integrate results from another simulator (CONSIM from CSELT, I) to study the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Galileo Satellites Need More Cash
News The European Commission said the roadmap for Galileo needs a rethink if the 2012 deadline for making the satellite system fully operational is to be met, adding that the "public-private partnership set up to implement Galileo needs to be reprofiled".
[May 18, 2007, 15:30]
Researchers Crack Galileo Signal Codes
News Researchers from Cornell University claim to have cracked the codes used by the Galileo global navigation satellite GIOVE-A. The signal transmitted from GIOVE-A (Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element-A) was broken after researchers intercepted the...
[July 13, 2006, 16:35]
Galileo, Galileo
Blog As we reported earlier this year, phone manufacturers wanting some kind of sat-nav functionality in their devices have been dragging their heels a bit in the hope that Galileo would become a practicable alternative to GPS in the near future.
[May 10, 2007, 10:34]
Curbs On Galileo Keep Planes Safe
News The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has introduced regulations that will prevent Europe's planned satellite positioning system, Galileo, from interfering with aircraft safety. There were fears that the constellation of satellites in...
[August 5, 2003, 11:20]
Russian Satellite Launch Boosts Galileo Competition
News Russia has taken a major step towards creating a satellite system to rival Europe's Galileo navigation system. Glonass takes Russia into direct competition with the US satellite system and Galileo, the proposed alternative in Europe.
[December 28, 2007, 12:24]
Europe And US Finalise GPS-Galileo System
News A joint compatibility and interoperability working group has been working since 2004 to design an interoperable signal system that can bring together signals from the EU's Galileo satellite system and the GPS satellites run by the US.
[July 30, 2007, 15:15]
Europe Needs Galileo To Find Its Way
Leader There can be no more ironic comment on Europe's near-farcical failure to advance its Galileo satellite navigation system beyond a couple of prototype placeholders in space and utter disorganisation on the ground.
[May 21, 2007, 17:18]
Galileo Gives Europe A Superior Location
Talkback FYI: Almost every NATO military is an authorized user of the US GPS high accuracy, high anti-jam signal via an agreement between USDOD and EU-MOD's. These agreements have been in place for many years and help to foster interoperability between US...
[January 16, 2006, 23:18]
Galileo Gives Europe A Superior Location
Talkback Keep up to date at the blog!
[January 16, 2006, 16:11]
Researchers Crack Galileo Signal Codes
Talkback I thought the new laws had made even thinking about cracking codes a criminal offence?
[July 14, 2006, 12:03]
Global Distribution Services Company Gains Productivity And Cost Efficiencies
White Papers Galileo International, part of the Travel Distribution Services (TDS) division of Cendant Corporation, needed to provide better communications among all the TDS organizations to increase efficiency, reduce operational costs, and expand market...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
European GPS Rival Is 'folly' Says MP
News A committee of MPs has called for a full review of the UK's involvement in the European Galileo satellite-network project. The cost of Galileo was planned to be €3bn (£2.1bn) but the Transport Sub-Committee believes that this could spiral to €14.2bn.
[November 12, 2007, 15:28]
Show Preview: CeBIT 2007
News One of the big themes at CeBIT 2007 will be geographical information systems, including the controversial Galileo project — the European equivalent of the US satellite-based Global Positioning System.
[March 14, 2007, 8:45]
Lowering Costs And Building Value With EMC Storage
White Papers Galileo is a global distribution business that processes nearly one-third of the world's travel reservations. Galileo manages a tremendous amount of information on its network. Ten years ago, Galileo found itself with storage systems that had run...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Firewall & Proxy Specifications
White Papers This paper outlines configuration changes that may be required by a firewall administrator to allow Galileo's Focalpoint, Viewpoint and Galileo Print Manager (GPM) applications to establish a session with Galileo's Computer Reservation System (CRS...
[July 10, 2008, 0:11]
Government Funds Sat-nav Integration Project
News The sat-nav device will be able to communicate with the American Global Positioning System (GPS), Europe's Galileo system and other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), De Montfort claimed on Thursday.
[April 3, 2008, 17:04]
Euro Satellite Navigation Takes To The Skies
News Galileo will be Europe's own global navigation satellite system, made up of a constellation of 30 satellites (27 operational and three spares), which will deliver real-time positioning. On top of this, Galileo promises to be more accurate and...
[July 27, 2006, 12:10]
