Airbus Defence and Space, part of the Europe-based global major Airbus aerospace and defence group, announced on Tuesday that it had successfully concluded the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the ‘system concept’ for the second generation of Galileo navigation satellites. Galileo is the European Union’s (EU’s) own global navigation satellite system (GNSS). The PDR was a key point in the programme. During the review, both the company’s initial design and the customer’s requirements for the system were fully reviewed and agreed. PDR approval meant that equipment and module verification, qualification and acceptance could be advanced. Payload verification was already under way. The next step, which would be in the near future, would be the Critical Design Review for the satellite structure.
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