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Europe's Own SatNav Galileo Goes Live

posted by FatPhil on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:19AM   
from the god-didn't-buy-any-of-these dept.

On IRC, Bytram brings us:

After 17 years, numerous setbacks and three times over budget, Europe's Galileo satnav system went live on Thursday promising to outperform rivals and guarantee regional self-reliance.

Initial services, free to users worldwide, are available only on smartphones and navigation units fitted with Galileo-compatible microchips.

Some devices may need only a software update to start using the service, according to the European Commission, which funds the 10 billion euro ($11 billion) project.

Source: http://phys.org/news/2016-12-galileo-europe-satnav.html

There's a list of Galileo-enabled devices at www.useGalileo.eu. One thought that goes through this editor's mind is that wIth two sources of data, the deliberate inaccuracy in the US military system seems somewhat futile now, I wonder if that misfeature is reaching end-of-life?

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• Re:The 20th Century called... Re:The 20th Century called... (Score: 2) by bob_super on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:42AM

  by bob_super (1357) on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:42AM (#442317)

  It could be turned back on any day, as soon as someone makes a comment about getting GPS-driven measurements of His Majesty's hands.

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• Re:The 20th Century called... (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:48AM

  by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:48AM (#442319) Journal

  The smartphone of 2025 will be able to use GPS, GPS Block IIIA, Galileo, GLONASS, Beidou, IRNSS, and QZSS. All in a single SoC. There's no point in shutting it down.

  (Disclaimer: your joke ignored)

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