Re: SLUGGISH GALILEO GETS A U.S. SHOT IN THE ARM



On Jul 27, 4:36 am, Happy Trails <nom...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:57:01 GMT, Sam Wormley <sworml...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

SLUGGISH GALILEO GETS A U.S. SHOT IN THE ARM
24 July 2007
Representatives of the US and European Union last week signed off an
agreement under which both US and European satellites would send
navigation information on the same frequency, enabling users to
receive positioning data from both on a single unit.

Dan Anderson gets his wish for more satellites - maybe!

Well done, USA! You have tricked the EU into paying the whole shot to
build, launch and maintain an additional 30 GPS-useable satellites

(as if they were really necessary??!!).

For certain applications, they are.


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