Santa Maria Station – photo © ESA

The latest addition to Galileo’s worldwide ground infrastructure has been made in the mid-Atlantic, on Portugal’s Santa Maria island in the Azores, it was reported from ESA on 27th March.

Opening ceremony – photo © ESA

Ceremony participants – photo © ESA

This new Galileo Sensor Station joins a far-flung network of stations monitoring signal quality, clock timings and positioning of the Galileo satellites orbiting Earth.

Europe’s Galileo satnav system – photo © ESA