{"id":81375,"date":"2013-03-13T22:18:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T14:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-announces-first-galileo-only-position-fix-successful\/"},"modified":"2013-03-13T22:18:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T14:18:17","slug":"esa-announces-first-galileo-only-position-fix-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-announces-first-galileo-only-position-fix-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Announces First Galileo-Only Position Fix Successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: European Space Agency, Galileo, Satellite Navigation, Satellite Positioning<br \/>\nPublication: GPSWorld.com<br \/>\nPublication Date: 03\/12\/2013<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"217\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Horizontal_position_fixes_node_full_image.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Galileo\u2019s horizontal position fixes.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: ESA\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The <strong>European Space Agency (ESA)<\/strong> has announced that the first four satellites of the future Galileo Satellite Navigation constellation achieved their first autonomous position fix. The agency said it obtained accuracy in the 10-meter range, which fulfills its expectations since the infrastructure is only partially deployed. <\/p>\n<p>The longitude, latitude, and altitude position fix took place at the Navigation Laboratory at ESA\u2019s ESTEC, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. This was the first time Europe has been able to determine a position on the ground using its own, independent system. <\/p>\n<p>Once completed, Galileo will have a constellation of 30 satellites. The system\u2019s early service is scheduled to start at the end of next year.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: European Space Agency, Galileo, Satellite Navigation, Satellite Positioning Publication: GPSWorld.com Publication Date: 03\/12\/2013 Galileo\u2019s horizontal position fixes. Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that the first four satellites of the future Galileo Satellite Navigation constellation achieved their first autonomous position fix. The agency said it obtained accuracy in the 10-meter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}