Category Archives: Galileo Services

Galileo Services

Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS), highly trustable data

The Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS) will be a unique encrypted navigation service of the EU’s Galileo GNSS. This robust and secure signal will be made available to authorised users, such as emergency services, via authorised national authorities.

PRS is an encrypted navigation service using dual band (E1 and E6 Galileo signals) designed to be more resistant to jamming, involuntary interference and spoofing. It combines the robust characteristics of a military GNSS signal with the huge potential of a civilian-controlled GNSS. Read more…

Leave a reply

Galileo Service Provision Delegated to GSA

The European GNSS Agency (GSA) and the European Commission concluded an agreement delegating a range of exploitation tasks for Galileo to the GSA. Serving as an initial step towards the full Galileo Exploitation Phase, the Agreement provides a framework and budget for the development of services and operations through 2021.

Specifically, according to the Agreement, the GSA’s responsibilities include: Read more…

Leave a reply

The GSC, GNSS Service Centre

The GNSS Service Centre (GSC), based within Madrid’s National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), is an integral part of the European GNSS infrastructure. Inaugurated in 2013, it is responsible for providing the single interface between the Galileo system and the users of the Galileo Open Service (OS) and the Galileo Commercial Service (CS). Read more…

1 Reply

The EU help Euromed countries to use Galileo and EGNOS services

With the Galileo constellation rapidly taking shape, the European Union has opened lines of communication with countries in North Africa and the Middle East with a view to assisting their governments and businesses to use the satellite services that extend across the Mediterranean. The services available to countries will be Galileo and EGNOS. The EGNOS system corrects typical GNSS errors such as the ionosphere disturbing the signal and slight discrepancies between the clocks to provide highly accurate positioning data and integrity information. Read more…

Leave a reply

Signature ESA/EU Delegation Agreements

Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, and Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director General for Enterprise and Industry at the European Commission, during the signature of the delegation agreement on the deployment phase of the European satellite radionavigation programme Galileo, and the signature of the 4th amendment to the delegation agreement on the further implementation of the European satellite navigation programme EGNOS, at ESA headquarters in Paris, on 16 July 2014.

Signature ESA/EU Delegation Agreements

Signature ESA/EU Delegation Agreements

Leave a reply

Alternative Complementary GNSS Systems shown to be Essential

In an unprecedented disruption of an operational GNSS constellation, all 24 satellites in the Russian GLONASS broadcast corrupt information for 11 hours starting at 21 UTC on 2 April. This rendered the system completely unusable to all worldwide GLONASS receivers.

The Russian GLONASS monitoring center showed satellites in unhealthy statuses: “failure” and “illegal ephemeris.” Because the failure was systemwide and simultaneous, some have speculated that an incorrect uploading of corrections to satellite ephermerides (orbital positions) occurred. Read more…

Leave a reply