Galileo Industries Told to Put House in Order
- From: Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:25:26 GMT
Galileo Industries Told to Put House in Order
http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=399854
Galileo's second act, satellite GIOVE-B, has yet to make its debut,
and some tempers are wearing a bit thin in Europe.
Making his wishes known to the press in a January 17 appearance,
European Space Agency (ESA) general director Jean-Jacques Dordain
shot a thinly veiled warning towards Galileo Industries, the industry
consortium responsible for building the second experimental Galileo
satellite, and four more to come for the in-orbit validation (IOV)
phase.
While the first satellite, GIOVE-A, built by Surrey Satellite
Technology Ltd., a small UK firm, has been flying perfectly well
since its December 2005 launch--and securing, at least temporarily,
the allocated radio frequencies for the European system--its sibling
GIOVE-B, first scheduled for launch in April 2006, then September,
then December, remains glued to the ground.
See: http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=39985
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