# Galileo Satellite Navigation Network: Status, Monitoring, and Observations from an Outsider

DevFeed: [Galileo Satellite Navigation Network: Status, Monitoring, and Observations from an Outsider](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-state-of-galileo-as-seen-by-an-outsider-36547.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/state-of-galileo-and-accident/>)

Published: 2019-11-07T08:47:53Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [navigation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/navigation.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [gnss](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gnss.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [navigation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/navigation.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [opinion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opinion.md>), [receiver](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/receiver.md>)

## AI overview

An outsider's personal assessment of the EU's Galileo Satellite Navigation Network, covering its operation, the July outage, and efforts to improve public understanding. The article also describes the galmon.eu open source monitoring project, which provides 24/7 coverage of Galileo and other global navigation satellite systems through dashboards and reports.

## Source excerpt

By bert hubert / bert@hubertnet.nl In this post I want to document some mostly non-technical aspects of the EU's Galileo Satellite Navigation Network. I will also share some observations on how things are going, and perhaps how they could be improved. NOTE: A shorter version of this article, focusing only on the July outage, can be found here. Since the week-long outage in July I've been fascinated by Galileo and, together with a wonderful crew of developers, experts and receiver operators, have learned so much about what I now know are called 'Global Navigation Satellite Systems' or GNSS.