Galileo’s Open Service (OS) is a free Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) service for global users. It is embedded in almost all smart devices such as smartphones, smartwatches, wearable health devices, in-vehicle navigation devices, and many more.

From helping you message friends to supporting actors in the midst of a humanitarian operation, secure connectivity and internet access has become a baseline necessity for much of our lives.

Space Situational Awareness (SSA) provides knowledge about space hazards like collisions, fragmentations, re-entering objects, solar storms, and approaching space rocks. It ensures the safety of European economies, societies, and citizens who rely on space-based communication, navigation, and observation services.

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In addition to animating the EU Space Networks, EUSSO operates a helpdesk to provide support to potential or existing users of EU space data and services.

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The way we live and move is increasingly shaped by insights and technologies from the EU Space Programme.

Water isn’t just essential for our health and the planet’s well-being - it’s the foundation around which we've built much of our society. 

Thanks to navigation systems like Galileo and EGNOS, it’s never been easier to find cultural sites and events at home and abroad. Space-based solutions can also support conservation and preservation efforts for historically or culturally significant sites. 

The challenge of growing food sustainably is one of the greatest of this century. It will require using our resources in an environmentally friendly way – especially our soil and water. 

When we say Copernicus is Europe’s eyes on Earth, we mean all of the Earth. It is able to observe nearly the entire surface of the globe, including its atmosphere, land, and ocean environments.

Satellite Navigation services are the backbone of many of today’s activities such as guiding you on your phone when you need directions or helping you keep track of your food delivery.

Satellite-based Earth Observation provides us the tools we need to better understand and monitor our planet.

As the space sector expands, driven by rapid technological progress and growing activity from both commercial and government players, it’s becoming increasingly important to make sure these developments are environmentally sustainable.

Over the past two decades, the European Union (EU) has steadily expanded its role in space to ensure that Europe fully benefits from the data and services provided by space-based technologies.

The EU’s European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) is one of its earliest space components.

Smart devices such as smartphones, wearable health gadgets, smart watches, and in-car navigation systems are seemingly everywhere.  These devices are constantly communicating with each other... and with satellites. 

Policymakers need actionable insights from the EU Space Earth Observation activities, yet the sheer volume of data delivered by Copernicus can sometimes be overwhelming. 

Space rocks such as comets and asteroids approach the Earth and enter the Earth’s atmosphere regularly. The EU supports activities that help to study and track those space rocks to better understand possible risks.