... ESA-ESTEC, the agency's European Research and Technology Centre, to see and learn about GIOVE-B, the second Galileo in-orbit validation satellite, before it is packed for shipping to the launch site.
Galileo is a promising tool for the scientific community, even though it is mainly intended for a set of practical services such as guiding cars, supporting safe aircraft landings or helping blind ...
A key meeting to enhance the scientific use of Galileo and contribute to the science-based development of Global Navigation Satellite Systems is being held at the 'Cité de l'Espace' in Toulouse on 1 ...
... aerospace group Boeing plans to compete for contracts connected with the European satellite navigation system Galileo, the German newspaper Handelsblatt said on Monday, quoting a company spokeswoman.
Today, the European Commission - with the support of ESA - is launching the procurement of Galileo, a global navigation system composed of 30 dedicated navigation satellites and a ground ...
Europe's two big satellite makers urged speeding Galileo satellite system.
Eleven industrial groups will compete for the contracts to build Europe's much-delayed satellite-navigation system, Galileo.
OHB will bid against a much larger consortium to build Galileo satellites.
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI is marking the 400th anniversary of Galileo's use of a telescope....
... with the International Year of Astronomy (IYA), which marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo's discoveries, a group of astronomers and curators from the Arcetri Observatory and the Institute and ...
... July 1609 (above), pre-dating Galileo's
much-celebrated observations of the moon by six ... dated, which proves
Harriot pre-dated Galileo, who has always been thought to have done
the first observation ...
Italian scientists are trying to get Galileo's DNA in order to figure out how the astronomer forged groundbreaking theories on the universe while gradually becoming blind, a historian said Monday.
... of the first drawings of celestial objects through a telescope. This first has long been attributed to Galileo Galilei, the Italian who went on to play a leading role in the 17th century scientific ...
... history of science, said yesterday he had applied to the local
authorities for permission to exhume Galileo's body and that of his
companion in death to take samples of their DNA for
examination."From ...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency is planning a special exhibit to celebrate Galileo's 445th birthday and 2009's designation as the International Year of Astronomy.
