Europe’s fifth and sixth Galileo satellites, which were salvaged from their faulty launch into working orbits, are set to begin broadcasting working navigation signals for test purposes. This ...

Sept. 17 (UPI) --SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the European Commission's Galileo L13 mission Tuesday, successfully delivering its navigation satellite constellation to a medium-Earth ...

A launch malfunction has blasted the first two fully operational satellites for Europe's global-positioning Galileo project into incorrect orbits, roughly 2,000 miles off their intended positions.

Galileo’s capabilities have grown with the addition of a new High Accuracy Service, freely available worldwide to anyone with a suitably equipped receiver. Delivering horizontal accuracy down to 20 cm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series ...

No audio available for this content. News from the European Space Agency (ESA). Europe’s first generation Galileo constellation is already the world’s most precise satellite navigation system — ...

NASA's Galileo Jupiter orbiter plunged into the Jovian atmosphere on 21 September to be destroyed to prevent contamination of the subsurface water oceans the probe may have discovered on the icy moon ...