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Go to topicGalileo Second Generation will offer novel signals, services and even more precise positioning. But all the work being done to make it happen hinges on this single item at ESA’s Navigation Laboratory at ESTEC. The team in the image will use the new G2 test user receiver to quantify the improvements the Second Generation will bring compared to legacy Galileo services and to verify the performance of early receivers processing the first G2 signals in space.