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| | | | | | | €50 000 for good satellite navigation ideas
24 May 2005
| Thorsten Rudolph, CEO Application Center Oberpfaffenhofen, at the Galileo Masters Competition 2004 prize giving ceremony in Munich, 18 October 2004
Credits: Daniel Grund | |  |  | |
| | | | | At the Galileo Masters Competition 2004 prize giving ceremony from left to right: Prof. Dr. Bernd Höfer CEO DLR (German Aerospace Center); Peter Törnblom, regional winner Göteborg; Francois Manchon, regional winner Sophia Antipolis; Dr. Hans Spitzner, Bavarian State Ministry; Anton Mayer, regional winner Munich; Dr. Elmar Paul Selbach, overall winner of the Galileo Masters 2004.
Credits: Daniel Grund | | | | |
| | | | Call for novel exploitation of navigation systems
| The winners of Galileo Masters had the chance to introduce their ideas to the audience at the SYSTEMS IT and Telecommunication Fair 2004
Credits: Annette Perlwitz | | | | |
| | | | Kick-off meeting in ESTEC
| Bruno Naulais, Manager of ESA's European Space Incubator (ESI), presents the role of ESI as participant to the Galileo Masters Competition 2005 at the kick-off meeting in ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 12 May 2005.
Credits: Michel van Baal, ESA | | | | |
| | | | | Christian Stammel, Anwendungszentrum, with Bruno Naulais, Manager of ESA's European Space Incubator (ESI), at the Galileo Masters Competition 2005 kick-off meeting in ESTEC addressing the competition and industry in the Dutch region
Credits: Annette Perlwitz | | | | |
| | | | Galileo satellite navigation system
| ESA is developing with the European Union a next generation European navigation system called Galileo. It will have a network of up to 30 satellites and will be able to provide even more exact positioning and make Europe independent from American and Russian GPS technologies.
Credits: DLR | | | | |
| | | | | Two satellite-based navigation systems for the high precision positioning of aircraft, ships, trucks. are operational today: the US's Global Positioning System (GPS) and Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (Glonass). Both are military oriented networks, each based on similar constellation of nominally 24 operational satellites.
Europe has decided to implement a satellite-based navigation system in a two-step approach. The first step is the European overlay navigation system (EGNOS) using the two existing navigation satellite constellations (GPS and Glonass); this system is already contracted to industry and test operations started by 2002.
The second step, Galileo, is intended to enable Europe to become a major partner in the setting up of a civilian satellite service around 2008. This service will meet worldwide the multimodal navigation requirements and can operate either autonomously or together with other systems. Aeronautical, maritime and land mobile users will greatly benefit from the service.
Credits: ESA-P. Sebirot | | | | |
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| | More information Galileo MastersRelated links ESI - European Space IncubatorIncubation and ESIESA's NavigationESINET - European Space Incubator NetworkESA's Technology Transfer Programme Galileo
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