The European Space Agency (ESA) has furnished Novatel Inc. with a 10-year license for the company to sell precise-positioning receivers for tracking Galileo signals, Novatel announced May 14.

Galileo is the European Union’s state-of-the-art global navigation satellite system expected to be fully operable between 2010 to 2012, with up to 30 satellites orbiting the Earth for both civilian and government purposes.