http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/ Engadget Comments for Hello, Galileo: European GPS sat sends first navigation data http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/I think it's the European maps which send the drivers into the "drink" not the gps signal. But makes fun reading.
I still shake my head at the EU spending billions on a duplication of what already exists. And who will pay for the premium service I wonder? Needs as lot pay paying customers for this baby.]]>May 7th 2007 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/
Especially useful now that Sat-nav is on the mobile platform.

]]>May 7th 2007 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/May 7th 2007 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/How much does the Galileo would cost?
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Likewise, I highly doubt we get free reign over our military and strategic use of the proprietary data either.]]>May 7th 2007 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/May 7th 2007 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/May 7th 2007 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/May 7th 2007 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/
As for the US gov't turning off the GPS system... well, that would pretty much shut down commerce and aviation in the United States, at least for a few weeks. There are too many systems (such as the aforementioned aviation nav) that have integrated GPS. The worst part is that not only is Europe wasting their dollars re-creating the system, but so is Russia. I guess it's their money...]]>May 7th 2007 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/
Just a lovely, cuddly, friendly nation is the US no?.....]]>May 7th 2007 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/Of course in theory the USA can pull the plug on the gps. So can the EU on Galileo. By the way the US and the EU sat down and prefact agreed that if either side saw a "threat" both would pull their respective GPS AT THE SAME TIME. Both the UE and the US know a threat to either, is a threat to both and they agreed at all levels how to co-ordinate a shut down. By the way when was the last time your free US gps service was shut down?
Galileo is years and billions behind/above schedule/budget and counting, so it's likely not cost effective at all. The sums being spent has been discussed several times. It's supposed to self support on it's PAY service, for increased accuracy. Will enough people PAY for it to recoup it's money.....? I doubt it and a simple upgrade to the US GPS would undermine the business anyway. It's likely, the G system, will be a drag on EU Tax payers for years to come. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2474634,00.html ]]>May 7th 2007 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/Without the lovely cuddly friendly Americans I would likely have been raised into a rather different European society in the last half of the 20th Century...... ]]>May 7th 2007 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/
Regarding the sensibility of building another system. China are also building their own system, so this is more a matter of national security than economics. But wouldn't it make more sense to simply change the GPS signals to encrypted signals and only equip US military with decryption capabilities? That's how it worked before 2000?]]>May 13th 2007 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/May 8th 2007 2:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/No need to shake your head at the EU spending billions. According to the EU's own Galileo web site, the project has 'Unquestionable Economic Viability' In fact there is even a whole page dedicated to it....

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/energy_transport/galileo/intro/viability_en.htm

Life is really so much easier when everything is unquestionable. Where would be today if Galileo Galilei himself had had the temerity to ask questions?]]>May 8th 2007 7:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/07/hello-galileo-european-gps-sends-first-navigation-data/May 8th 2007 3:04PM