Re: EU satellite project Galileo faces fund crunch

Gegroet,

Ron Lee schreef: 
Propaganda works both ways.  When you read some of the documents on
the above site, you may notice subtle or blatant "anti-GPS
propaganda."

I don't think you should have to look to far for this all. The "issues" the Europeans have witH GPS are pretty well known.

To that I will note that GPS is up and running providing an awesome
PNT system to the world and is undergoing improvements that will
provide increased accuracy, robustness, etc.

Sure, but the question is "control" and "accountability". If you want have a system which can be used for applications which are that critical that human lives are at stake (like landing an airplane) somebody has to be responsable for the system.

As long as the US federal gouvernement insist on GPS being a militairy system first and that the civilian applications are secundairy to that and can be "closed down" whenever the militairy need is there, you don't have to be surprised that this is a situation which cannot go on forever.
If you have a system used for applications where peoples lives are at stake, somebody has to be accountable for it and therefor he/she has to be in control over it.



All commercial issues aside, you can image that the US gouvernement would do exactly the same thing if the positions would be reversed.




> ... And the cost to our 
friends in the EU.......ZERO.   Not one euro, franc, shilling, mark,
pound, peso......

The Franc, Shilling, Mark and peso do not exist anymore.
:-)


Ron Lee 
Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.
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