No audio available for this content. Europe’s two satellite navigation systems could combine in the future for heightened performance, an airborne test has confirmed. A helicopter flight took place ...

Two experimental satellites are being developed for the Galileo System Test Bed – Version 2, which will make up the first phase of in the ‘in-orbit validation’ of the Galileo system. Both spacecraft ...

Giove-B, the second and last test satellite, will test the atomic clock and signal transmission of Europe's troubled satellite navigation program. Jennifer Guevin was a managing editor at CNET, ...

GETTING READY: Two experimental pathfinder spacecraft for Europe's planned Galileo satellite navigation system are in the final stages of preparation for launch, the European Space Agency says.

The first Galileo Second Generation hardware has begun testing, with test versions of the satellites’ navigation payloads undergoing evaluation by Airbus Defence and Space at their Ottobrunn facility ...