

These two sites oversee PRS provision and monitor its performance. Germain-en-Laye, France, and Madrid, Spain.

The system’s FOC PRS capability is being enabled by an expansion of the Galileo ground mission segment - important upgrades of the Galileo Security Monitoring Centres (GSMCs) in St. Galileo’s PRS is an encrypted navigation and timing service for governmental authorized users and sensitive applications intended to remain available even in scenarios where other Galileo services might be degraded or jammed.Īn initial version of the PRS signal has been broadcast by the satellites up to now, but as of next year the signals will evolve into an enhanced version known as Full Operational Capability Public Regulated Service (FOC PRS), which has been defined in close collaboration with the European Commission, the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) and the EU Member States. The system test extended from the Galileo Security Monitoring Centre in Spain and the Galileo Control Centre in Germany to a Galileo satellite at ESA’s ESTEC technical heart in the Netherlands, which then broadcast in turn to a user receiver. For the first time, end-to-end testing of the Galileo system demonstrated signal acquisition of an improved version of the Public Regulated Service (PRS), the most secure and robust class of Galileo services.

News from the European Space Agency (ESA)Įurope’s Galileo satellite navigation system continues to evolve. Galileo Control Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
