The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded GMV a contract to develop the ground segment responsible for in-orbit control and validation of the Galileo Second Generation (G2G)

Europe's global navigation satellite system, known as Galileo, provides positioning and clock synchronization services to more than four billion users worldwide The G2G will introduce new services, improve accuracy, and increase system security 

The new contract comes on top of those already signed by GMV for the Galileo First Generation (G1G), bringing the total contract value since 2018 to more than €500 million