Satellite News

Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which deals with gravity, could be used to improve global navigation systems in the future. ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team has collaborated with the University of Ljubljana to research this possibility.

GIOVE-B launch reportedly delayed / EU And South Korea to sign co-operation accord on Galileo

Testing of the ground control system of the GLONASS satellite navigation system has been completed, Nikolay Testoyedov, the Head of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Company was quoted as saying.

On 26 January at 0749 UTC, the 2nd Space Operations Squadron at the 50th Space Wing, Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado/USA, verified users were experiencing GPS timing issues.

Early in July the Inter-site links between the two Galileo Ground Control Centres in Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany) and Fucino (Italy) were declared fully functional and approved for use by the Galileo Security Accreditation Board.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it began field testing the world’s first autonomous driving technology on highways to use a centimeter-level augmentation service (CLAS) broadcast from the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) on 19 September.