September 20, 2003
US GPS v Galileo
It looks like there may be a new satellite system to provide an alternative to the US military based GPS system. The prospect is apparently not going down well with the US:
The US wants to maintain a superiority in space. It has seen, even in the recent conflicts, how central that is to its ability to conduct campaigns overseas, and therefore anything that either erodes that superiority, or worse still, jeopardises it, will be taken very seriously indeed by the American military, and so it's entirely understandable that they would much rather Galileo didn't exist.But Europe and possibly Russia and China appear to be moving ahead with the system.
Via PRC News.
Posted by Steve on September 20, 2003
