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Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage:
Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system, a rival of the American GPS network, is back in service after a six-day outage, its oversight agency said on Thursday.
"Commercial users can already see signs of recovery of the Galileo navigation and timing services, although some fluctuations may be experienced until further notice," the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency said in a statement.
[...]The European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency said the problem was due to an equipment malfunction in the ground control centres that make time and orbit predictions for the satellites.
Though a great deal of progress has been made, the Galileo system is not complete. According to Wikipedia:
The first Galileo test satellite, the GIOVE-A, was launched 28 December 2005, while the first satellite to be part of the operational system was launched on 21 October 2011. As of July 2018, 26 of the planned 30 active satellites are in orbit. Galileo started offering Early Operational Capability (EOC) on 15 December 2016, providing initial services with a weak signal, and is expected to reach Full Operational Capability (FOC) in 2019. The complete 30-satellite Galileo system (24 operational and 6 active spares) is expected by 2020. It is expected that the next generation of satellites will begin to become operational by 2025 to replace older equipment. Older systems can then be used for backup capabilities.
There are 22 satellites in usable condition (satellite is operational and contributing to the service provision), 2 satellites are in "testing" and 2 more are marked as not available.
Given the problem was with a reference time signal, I wonder if anyone involved was playing this song? Or how about this variant of it?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Friday July 19 2019, @02:41AM (3 children)
If you wanted accurate navigation you should have named it after a navigator, not a star gazer. Guys like Magellan, Vespucci. Not Columbus. Definitely not Columbus.
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday July 19 2019, @09:42AM
Or not had it run in Italy. Hey, you come back domani, molto time then.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday July 19 2019, @03:07PM
The only Navigator I know of is Netscape.
First comes the Navigator.
Then comes the Explorer.
Then comes the Konqueror.
Then comes all the other unwashed masses of clones and "me too's". With WebKit code based on Konqueror.
I would have thought of Louis [Lane] an Clark [Kent], but they were not navigators, but rather explorers or mapmakers which is a fancy way of saying "cartographers".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @04:20PM
Lost? Have you tried Rev. Harry Krishna?