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Europe’s GPS system ‘Galileo’ finally restored following major ‘technical incident’ | Europe’s GPS system ‘Galileo’ finally restored following major ‘technical incident’ |
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Europe’s satellite navigation system, ‘Galileo,’ has been finally restored six days after a major technical error caused most satellites powering the system to break down. | Europe’s satellite navigation system, ‘Galileo,’ has been finally restored six days after a major technical error caused most satellites powering the system to break down. |
The European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GNSS) announced that initial services had been restored on Thursday morning, but added that users may still “experience service instability until further notice.” | |
READ MORE: ‘Technical incident’ puts Europe’s GPS system fully offline for days | |
The EU’s Galileo system was built to replace the US’ GPS navigation in a multi-billion-euro project that went live in December 2016 after 17 years of development. However, users were automatically reverted to the US positioning system during the almost week-long outage. | |
The GNSS announced the outage on Sunday, explaining that “a technical incident related to its ground infrastructure” had caused a “temporary interruption” of services since Friday, July 12. | |
There are currently 22 operational satellites in orbit, with another two in testing and a further 12 under construction. Owned by the EU and operated by the European Space Agency, the full service is expected to be deployed by 2020. | |
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