Re: Galileo Industries Told to Put House in Order

s_anode@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 13, 9:25 am, Sam Wormley <sworml...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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

Maybe we can get Mr. Dordain to tell someone to get the GPS IIF house
in order too.



Is there a budget problem?
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