The European Commission has defined the evolution of the Galileo mission on the basis of three strategic objectives: independence, robustness and competitiveness, also establishing three mission evolution scenarios with an incremental demand in terms of objectives. The three system evolution scenarios were analyzed in a first phase finishing in March 2017.

Now in a new program evolution phase, GMV, one of the main players in Europe’s satellite-navigation strategy implementation, continues to play an outstanding role in the program.

The project, including over 10 international subcontractors, has the main aim of consolidating mission definition and carrying out a set of analyses identified at the end of the former phase. The project also comprises the critical review of the ground-segment requirements of the next Galileo generation plus the preliminary design of this segment. This Horizon 2020 project for satellitenavigation innovation and research is particularly important in that it allows GMV to take on responsibility for specification and design of one of Galileo’s most important segments.

In the first generation of Galileo GMV is responsible for several items in the Ground Mission Segment (GMS) and the Ground Control Segment (GCS). This new contract award makes GMV leader of the Ground Segment (including both activities, GMS and GCS) of the Galileo second generation.