Events
The Brussels Space Policy Round Table - Galileo: Current Status and Future Opportunities
When: Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Where: Avenue des Arts 8, 1210 Brussels (building of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
Galileo is Europe's own global navigation satellite system,
providing a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service
under civilian control. It is inter-operable with GPS and Glonass,
the two other global satellite navigation systems.
By offering dual frequencies as standard, Galileo will deliver
real-time positioning accuracy down to the metre range. It will
guarantee availability of the service under all but the most
extreme circumstances and will inform users within seconds of any
satellite failure, making it suitable for safety-critical
applications such as guiding cars, running trains and landing
aircraft.
ESA's first two navigation satellites, GIOVE-A and -B, were
launched in 2005 and 2008 respectively, reserving radio frequencies
set aside for Galileo by the International Telecommunications Union
and testing key Galileo technologies.
Then on 21 October 2011 came the first two of four operational
satellites designed to validate the Galileo concept in both space
and on Earth. Two more will follow in 2012. Once this In-Orbit
Validation (IOV) phase has been completed, additional satellites
will be launched to reach Initial Operational Capability (IOC)
around mid-decade.
A range of services will be extended as the system is built up
from IOC to reach the Full Operational Capability (FOC) by this
decade's end.
The fully deployed Galileo system consists of 30 satellites (27
operational + 3 active spares), positioned in three circular Medium
Earth Orbit (MEO) planes at 23 222 km altitude above the Earth, and
at an inclination of the orbital planes of 56 degrees to the
equator.
Please join the Secure World Foundation to participate in a debate
on Galileo: Its current Status and Future opportunities as the part
of SWF's Brussels Space Policy Round Table series of short panel
discussions focused on significant global space events with a
particular emphasis on Europe. The schedule of these events is
driven by the important occurrences in the space sector.
Speakers Include:
Michel Bosco, Deputy Head of Unit, EU
Satellite Navigation Programmes: Applications; Security,
International Aspects, European Commission
Marina Martinez, Framework Programme Officer for the Thematic
areas of Transport & Aeronautics, Space, Security and SMEs, Spanish Office of Science and
Technology
Daniel Ludwig, Independent Consultant, DLC
Gard Ueland, President, Galileo Services
Moderator: Agnieszka Lukaszczyk, European Program
Manager, Secure World Foundation
Read the bios of the
speakers here.
Please, find below the presentations from the event:
Michel Bosco, "The
European GNSS Programmes, EGNOS and Galileo, International
Challenges Ahead"
Gard Ueland, "Galileo,
Opportunities and Challenges"
Marina Martinez,
"CDTI-SOST, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation"
