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    Czechs sign deal to host EU's satellite navigation

    Associated Press – Fri, Jan 27, 2012

    PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech government has signed a deal for Prague to host the headquarters of an ambitious satellite navigation system that is expected to rival the U.S. Global Positioning System.

    The deal was signed Friday in Prague by Czech Transport Minister Pavel Dobes and Carlo des Dorides, executive director of the European GNSS Agency.

    The European Union wants to achieve independence in satellite navigation with a system known as Galileo that it says is more precise and more reliable than the current GPS, while fully controlled by civil authorities.

    It foresees applications ranging from precision seeding on farmland to pinpoint positioning for search-and-rescue missions. On top of that, the EU hopes the system will reap a financial windfall.

    The system, which will eventually have a network of 30 satellites, is expected to become operational in 2014.

     

    11 comments

    • Bobby
      Bobby  •  Spur, Texas  •  26 days ago
      Its nice to see the EU forsees applications, the US has been doing.....for the past 15 years...!!!
    • Mic
      Mic  •  25 days ago
      If it's a better system great, but this is something that the world needs only one of.
    • Kranky Kat
      Kranky Kat  •  25 days ago
      Will my US-GPS begin speaking in Czech?
    • MarcoM
      MarcoM  •  25 days ago
      ESA has managed to put up only 2 sats in 15 years !!!! It was supposed to have all 30 up by now. You do the math.
    • Hounddoggin
      Hounddoggin  •  Canton, Georgia  •  27 days ago
      Recalculating now.
    • Brian
      Brian  •  25 days ago
      Great, they're broke and so they are going to build something that has already been built.....genius.
    • bttr2brnout
      bttr2brnout  •  25 days ago
      Corporations stiffle innovation as much as they promote it...Cronyism has taken its toll under the GOP.
    • Royal Ron
      Royal Ron  •  Pleasanton, California  •  25 days ago
      U.S. is going down the tubes. EU ready to defend itself!
    • Old Geezer
      Old Geezer  •  25 days ago
      The Czech's have always been the cream of the Eastern European countries.
    • click
      click  •  25 days ago
      Having worked directly with GPS ground control systems, including direct reprogramming of operation code onboard, I can say one thing.

      The GPS constellation is a military weapon designed for spying and for killing people. Any and all civilian uses of the system are purely secondary.

      *I just deleted like a full page of text realizing no one cares
    • safeinthewoods
      safeinthewoods  •  27 days ago
      ... keep the U S out of it ... they'd only try to take ' control ' ...
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