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Saturday, April 28, 2007
Politicians pushing for European "GPS"
The European satellite-based navigation system Galileo has been hampered by slow deployment, and the politicians are not amused. Main reason being increasing costs (even the start budget of 10 billion Euros is a lot), but I think also a major factor is that this is very strategic in EU's efforts to become independent of USA, so they want to generally speed things up. I get the impression that the involved are still negotiating. Actual deployment hasn't been started yet.
From Wikipedia: 'the European Union has agreed to switch to a range of frequencies known as "Binary Offset Carrier 1.1," which will allow both EU and US forces to block each other's signals in the battlefield without disabling the entire system'
That's nice.
From Wikipedia: 'the European Union has agreed to switch to a range of frequencies known as "Binary Offset Carrier 1.1," which will allow both EU and US forces to block each other's signals in the battlefield without disabling the entire system'
That's nice.
