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posted by chromas on Wednesday April 25 2018, @11:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the alternative-sats dept.

The UK may deploy its own constellation of navigation satellites due to being excluded from the European Union's Galileo project:

Britain is considering setting up a satellite navigation system to rival the European Union's Galileo project amid a row over attempts to restrict Britain's access to sensitive security information after Brexit, the Financial Times reported.

[...] "The UK's preference is to remain in Galileo as part of a strong security partnership with Europe. If Galileo no longer meets our security requirements and UK industry cannot compete on a fair basis, it is logical to look at alternatives," she said.

The European Commission has started to exclude Britain and its companies from sensitive future work on Galileo ahead of the country's exit from the EU in a year's time, a move which UK business minister Greg Clark said threatened security collaboration.

"We have made it clear we do not accept the Commission's position on Galileo, which could seriously damage mutually beneficial collaboration on security and defence matters," he said in an emailed statement.

Although basic Galileo services are supposedly free and open to everyone with no risk of being disabled or degraded, higher-precision capability is available only to paying commercial users.

Now we have GPS, Galileo, BeiDou/COMPASS, GLONASS, IRNSS/NAVIC, QZSS, and possibly a British satnav system in the future. Devices can use multiple systems to achieve greater precision. Check out this comparison of systems.

Also at BBC and The Independent.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by MostCynical on Thursday April 26 2018, @12:04AM (3 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday April 26 2018, @12:04AM (#671958) Journal
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday April 26 2018, @01:14AM (2 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday April 26 2018, @01:14AM (#671983)

    I wonder if my claim was misinformed, or Mr. Johnston's just made up?

    Never mind. At least we can be sure he's not a self-interested liar.

    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday April 26 2018, @01:25AM (1 child)

      by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday April 26 2018, @01:25AM (#671984) Journal

      Of *course* it was "made up"
      Very little of what Boris says is in any way linked to "truth", excepting where Brexit (and May) supporters believe what he says to be the truth (and expect anyone to *disprove* things). Alas, there are quite a few similarities with politics in several countries, at the moment.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @04:28AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @04:28AM (#672029)

        Look, no-one believes in Boris's numbers. They just want to Make Britain Great Again and whatever bullshit sounds good in any given context is what gets said. Economy? Better off out of the EU. Trade? Better off out. Satellites? Better of out. Worker rights? Better of out. Etc. etc. etc. Evidence is beside the point, it's all about socking it to the unpatriotic, dithering liberals who won't admit Britain is the Greatest country the Earth has ever seen and single-handeldly won WW2 and invented nuclear bombs and submarines and writing and penicillin. Not that Brexit votes would know that last one.