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ESA successfully launches two new Galileo navigation satellites

Ryan Daws — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 13:41:43 +0000

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched two new Galileo navigation satellites over the weekend. While many of us were enjoying a Sunday dinner, the ESA took to the spaceport in French Guiana to launch the 27th and 28th satellites in its sat-nav constellation. The satellites were launched using the Soyuz four-stage launcher, the longest-operating... Read more »

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Starlink satellites can provide ‘far more robust’ navigation than GPS

Ryan Daws — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:19:03 +0000

Starlink’s satellites can be updated to provide navigation which is more accurate and less prone to interference than GPS. The findings have been published in a non-peer-reviewed paper on preprint repository arXiv by Todd Humphreys and Peter Iannucci at the Radionavigation Laboratory at The University of Texas. Humphreys and Iannucci propose a new system that harnesses Starlink’s... Read more »

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