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Europe's Own SatNav Galileo Goes Live

posted by FatPhil on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:19AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @08:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @08:36AM (#442394)

    And he's only got Bing Maps to guide him. Muahaha!

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  • (Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Tuesday December 20 2016, @03:55PM

    by Rivenaleem (3400) on Tuesday December 20 2016, @03:55PM (#443841)

    Posting because there's no "-1 Cruel and Unusual Punishment" mod.