On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...

The Galileo satellite system is a £8bn navigation project intended to rival the US-controlled Global Positioning System. Once fully operational in 2020 it will provide accurate position ...

And yet, this was the case with Galileo’s discovery of Jovian satellites, which took shape from January 7, 1610. Astronomical changes were brewing at the end of 1609. With the telescope having ...

Funding for the UK's own satellite navigation system to rival the European Union's Galileo project is expected to be announced. It comes after the UK was told it would not be able to access the EU ...

The Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is the European Unions (EU) version of GPS and is intended primarily for civilian use. Galileo consists of 30 satellites.

India successfully launched into orbit on Wednesday a new navigation satellite aboard a home-grown rocket, strengthening its ...

Can the UK go it alone on a sat-nav scheme? Brexit to ‘force sat-nav work out of UK’ UK considers rival to EU Galileo satellite London's dismay at being shut out of a system it helped develop ...

A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...