Welcome to the VIRTUAL GALILEO INFORMATION CENTRE (c) LATINO Consortium
Welcome to the Virtual GALILEO Information Centre for Latin America

galileo information.jpgOn 9 December 2005, the GALILEO Information Centre (GIC) for Latin America was opened in São José dos Campos, close to São Paulo/Brazil.

The Centre - hosted in "Centro Regional de Educação em Ciência e Tecnologias Espaciais para America Latina e Caribe (CRECTEALC)" - is created for the benefit of cooperation with all Latin American countries and aims to constitute a focal point for the promotion of GALILEO services and applications in the region. Its main mission is to implement information and training activities and to facilitate interaction between GNSS actors in Latin America and Europe.

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METIS demonstrates benefits of EGNOS in Civil Aviation

METIS demonstrates benefits of EGNOS in Civil Aviation. The Euro-Med GNSS project named METIS has started its activities for the demonstrations of EGNOS benefits in the Civil Aviation domain, to be performed in the period October- November 2009. ... [more]

Call for a Latin American representative for the ESNC 2009

Call for a partner to represent a latin american region within the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) 2009. The regional participations are usually organized by regional development agencies, regional high-tech/GNSS initiatives, regional governments or chambers of commerce, but the format of the institution is not important, as long as there is a backing from the regional government to represent the region. ... [more]

Galileo Information Centre in GSA web site

Galileo Information Centre in GSA web site ... [more]

Pildo Labs involved in EGNOS Performance monitoring in Meda Region

EGNOS Performance monitoring in Meda Region ... [more]

Europe signs new EGNOS RIMS agreement in Egypt

Representatives of the Egyptian government and the European Space Agency have agreed on the construction of a new Ranging and Integrity Monitoring Station (RIMS) in Alexandria. ... [more]

Sucessful final EGNOS trial in Bologna, Italy

The successful final EGNOS flight trial of the EU-funded 'GIANT' project took place in Bologna on 27 September 2008. ... [more]

GIANT: Successful LPV demonstration in Valencia, Spain

On August 28th, 2008, a completely successful LPV flight demonstration has been performed in Valencia in the frame of the GIANT EU Programme. ... [more]

GIOVE-B transmitting its first signals

Following a successful launch on 27 April, GIOVE-B began transmitting navigation signals on May 7th, 2008. ... [more]

Galileo System successfull launches second satellite

Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system took another step forward on Sunday with the launch of a second experimental satellite. The European Union's second Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element (GIOVE-B) satellite in the Galileo series was launched successfully from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Sunday, separating faultlessly from its Soyuz-FG rocket into orbit at just after 0200 GMT. ... [more]

GIOVE-B: launch scheduled for April 28th, 00:16:02 CEST

The launch of GIOVE-B is scheduled for 27 April at 00:16:02 CEST (22:16 UTC 26 April, 04:16:02 local time on 27 April). ... [more]