GMV and the European Space Agency…

GMV and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a new contract for the development of a new generation of GSS stations for receiving signals from Galileo satellites. The project, called ACHILLES (Advanced Technologies Breadboarding for Low-Complexity Sensor Stations), reinforces GMV's position as a technology leader in satellite navigation systems.

GSS stations are part of the Galileo ground network and are essential to the system's operation. They receive and process the signals transmitted by the satellites, analyze their quality, identify errors, and send the measurements and navigation messages received to the system control center. The objective of ACHILLES is to design a new generation of more compact, robust, and low-cost GSS capable of ensuring high accuracy and robust operation under adverse conditions. To achieve this goal, the industrial consortium led by GMV will explore innovative technologies in various fields, such as smart antennas with spatial diversity and dual polarization, configurable and wide-spectrum radio frequency chains, hybrid beamforming techniques, and distributed architectures based on cloud computing.