Category: satnav

The UK buys a 45 percent stake in broke satellite startup OneWeb

[ad_1] The government previously planned to build its own Galileo replacement with the help of other members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance — Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US. The project was put on hold in May just before the publication of a feasibility study. The estimated cost had risen by then to […]

Europe’s sat-nav network crippled by ‘technical incident’

[ad_1] The GSA said that “experts are working to restore the situation as soon as possible. An Anomaly Review Board has been immediately set up to analyze the exact root cause and to implement recovery actions.” Sat-nav capabilities will be unavailable until further notice, it added. However, Galileo’s ability to pick up distress messages for […]