Neowin News Feed for: Galileo

SpaceX to launch Galileo satellites, enhancing navigation for smartphones - TWIRL #181

Paul Hill — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:28:01 +0000

A busy week for rocket launches includes SpaceX's Falcon 9 carrying two Galileo satellites, crucial for enhancing navigation services on smartphones globally. Read more...

TWIRL 41: Galileo satellites set to be orbited by ‘Europeanised' Soyuz 2.1b variant

Paul Hill — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 04:00:01 +0000

In the upcoming week, we'll be getting several satellite launches. Among them will be the launch of two new Galileo satellites and 53 Starlink satellites. There are no manned missions this week. Read more...

China's BeiDou navigation system about to go global

Paul Hill — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 16:22:01 +0000

China has launched its first BeiDou-3 satellites marking the beginning of the global expansion of the Chinese navigation system. Phones will likely support BeiDou in the West in several years time. Read more...

China marks significant progress on its BeiDou satnav network

Paul Hill — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:06:01 +0000

China's BeiDou satellite network now works with a new chip that enables the system to pin a device's location accurately to one or two metres, putting it on par with the EU's Galileo satellite system. Read more...

Europe's sat nav system Galileo to go live this week

Chandrakant Isi — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 07:40:01 +0000

Europe's satellite navigation system Galileo is said to be more accurate than GPS and GLONASS. The ambitious project has cost the European Union over a 10 billion euros. Read more...

Microsoft kills Windows IoT support for Intel's Galileo boards

Andy Weir — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:02:01 +0000

Microsoft says it is terminating support for the slimmed-down version of its Windows OS designed for Internet of Things devices - on the Intel Galileo and Galileo Gen 2 on November 30. Read more...

Microsoft rolls out Windows OS preview for 'Internet of Things'

Andy Weir — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:12:04 +0000

Microsoft has launched a custom minimized version of Windows 8.1, designed for "a new class of small devices", making the preview OS available to all developers with an Intel Galileo board. Read more...

First Galileo satellites launched, Europe's answer to GPS

Mike Brown — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:22:54 +0000

Galileo, the EU's global positioning system, came a step closer to reality today. The first two satellites were launched earlier, putting the project on target for its 2014 switch-on date. Read more...

Europe's Galileo system increases its budget by €1.9bn

Piers Hausjell — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:03:11 +0000

Since day one it has been a bumpy ride for Galileo, Europe's satellite navigation system. Wikileaks Cables caused Senior managers to be removed, the United States objected owing to fears of troops being attacked and... Read more...

Eclipse Galileo 2009

André Slupik — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:49:12 +0000

Galileo, the 2009 release train, is the largest ever release from the Eclipse community, comprising 33 projects and over 24 million lines of code. Over 380 committers from 44 different organizations participated to make this... Read more...

EU Agrees to Fully Fund Galileo

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:37:08 +0000

European Union governments agreed Friday to jointly complete the development of the much-delayed Galileo satellite navigation project after mollifying Spain, which had demanded a bigger stake in the venture. Spain was the lone holdout in... Read more...

EU Says It Has Money to Salvage Galileo

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:27:17 +0000

In a follow-up to our previous story, Europe's proposed multibillion-dollar Galileo satellite navigation project could be salvaged with the help of unspent EU funds and without additional taxpayer money, the European Commission said today. The... Read more...

EU Searches for Galileo Funding Source

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:33:39 +0000

The European Union will decide this week where the €2.4bn shortfall in funding for the Galileo GPS satellite system will come from. A meeting on September 19th is expected to suggest that the cost is... Read more...

Galileo system 'in a deep crisis'

Tue, 08 May 2007 14:44:11 +0000

Europe's proposed satellite-navigation system, Galileo, will need more public funds if it is to be built. Hope is receding that a private consortium asked to run the system can end its infighting and meet a... Read more...