Euro GPS Galileo gets ready for nuclear missile use

Back in March, The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) global positioning system (GPS) alternative Galileo successfully found a ground location at tests in The Netherlands.
With only four of its satellites visible at once, the ESA was chuffed that the system worked for the first time and popped out a canned statement to that effect.
It has since emerged that the March tests weren’t just on the garden-variety version of the service that might find its way into consumer-grade devices.
Galileo’s various signals include the "Public Regulated Services" (PRS), an encrypted offering the EU says “will be restricted to authorized users by governments for sensitive applications that require a high level of continuity.”
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España lidera la primera misión del mundo sobre vuelo con precisión milimétrica

Dos naves espaciales volarán en formación por primera vez con precisión milimétrica. El objetivo de este proyecto de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA) es demostrar que dos satélites se pueden mover como si fueran uno solo con una "precisión submilimétrica". Con esta configuración se podrían crear enormes telescopios espaciales con la lente y el detector separados centenares de metros.
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ESA-EDA Flight Demo On Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Insertion Into Civil Airspace

San Javier Air Base (Murcia) was selected to conduct the trials and demonstrate that satellite communications are suitable to operate Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPASs) and integrate them into civil airspace.
The DeSIRE project (Demonstration of Satellites enabling the Insertion of RPAS in Europe) is funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Defence Agency (EDA) within an initiative to support the utilization of RPAS complemented by satellites for commercial and governmental applications.

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ESA installs orbital debris test radar in Spain

The European Space Agency (ESA) has installed the first orbital debris test radar in Spain, which will be used to develop early warning services to help European satellite operators manoeuvre to avoid debris.

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