Hughes.....or Boeing (if they have any order forms left)
Posted on 05/08/2007 1:24:24 PM PDT by MrNJ
Europe's $4.9 billion satellite navigation system is in deep crisis and will require more public funds to get back on track, the European Union said.
The Galileo project -- Europe's rival to the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS -- has already seen major delays because the eight companies in the consortium are arguing over how to divide the workload.
The consortium of companies from France, Germany, Spain, Britain and Italy has been given until Thursday to set up a joint legal entity to run the project or risk losing control of it. But German Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, speaking on behalf of the EU, said he had "little hope left" the consortium will end the infighting in time.
"Galileo is in a profound and serious crisis. We're in a dead-end street," Tiefensee said. "The cardinal problem is that the companies still have not been able to agree on the way forward. We need to find an alternative solution." . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Too many cooks spoiled the broth..........
What, exactly, is the point in this? Anybody in the world who has a receicer can use our GPS system for free, so why waste all the money building their own?
Because the EU is afraid of something that is relied upon and out of their control. If the US turned on GPS, we can turn it off at any time.
The EU wanted their own global positioning system for their next-generation air traffic control that wasn’t subject to US or Russian (who operate GLONASS) whims.
Hughes.....or Boeing (if they have any order forms left)
And, of course, all the manuals and instructions are in Arabic, making it doubly difficult.
use ugly american GPSsssss
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Same reason the Russians and Chinese have: if they go to war with us, they want to have their own system.
They are trying to be civilian and gov’t about it. If they were military about it they might make it work. Too bad they want their own system and can’t use the GPS because if the GPS goes down their Galileo will be going down too. The Chinese are also putting a system up and it will have the same problem that if the GPS goes down their system won’t be there either.
Actually it’s another failing attempt to challenge the superiority of the United States.
Actually... Hughes IS Boeing.
Hughes Aircraft was acquired by General Motors in 1985. GM sold off the aerospace and defense operations during the late 1990s; Hughes Aircraft was sold to Raytheon in 1997 and the Hughes Research Laboratories became jointly owned by Boeing, GM, and Raytheon. Hughes Space and Communications Company was purchased by Boeing in 2000 and renamed Boeing Satellite Development Center. GM sold the remainder of Hughes Electronics to News Corporation which renamed the company DirecTV Group.
Guten tag, Rupert?
Management by committee never works.....
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Turn it over to Airbus! [**snicker**]
Actually, besides the obvious, the Euroweenies want to be able to charge for their system, one way or another, either from their own licensing decoder for the receivers, or licenses for their receivers, etc.
They don't trust you.
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