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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: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday April 26 2018, @02:46PM (1 child)

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Thursday April 26 2018, @02:46PM (#672163) Journal

    Not that simple. Basically, this is the Irish Border Problem:

    We HAVE to have Brexit because the government has a democratic mandate to deliver the decision that the electorate regrets.
    The small group of ideological Brexiterrorists pulling Theresa May's strings won't accept anything less than full regulatory divergence, which means there has to be a hard border somewhere.
    The Irish / EU and sane people everywhere won't accept a hard border between Northern Ireland and South.
    The DUP (to whom May is beholden, despite having bribed them with a billion quid of our money) won't accept a hard border down the Irish Sea.

    Logically, this leaves only one solution: The Republic of Ireland must rejoin Great Britain. I propose we immediately dispatch Boris Johnson on his big Union Jack Battlebus to persuade the Irish that this is a great idea. Obviously, since austerity is on and money doesn't grow on trees, he should take with him a minimal, if not non-existent, security contingent.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Thursday April 26 2018, @04:58PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 26 2018, @04:58PM (#672210) Journal

    The Irish / EU and sane people everywhere won't accept a hard border between Northern Ireland and South.
    The DUP (to whom May is beholden, despite having bribed them with a billion quid of our money) won't accept a hard border down the Irish Sea.

    And we won't accept stupidity on the internet despite the fact that we have absolutely no control over stupidity on the internet other than our own. Power isn't about what you can accept, it's about what you can change.