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 Post subject: Go Galileo:Go
PostPosted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 16:29 
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http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20131115IPR24727/html/MEPs-give-green-light-to-Galileo-the-EU-alternative-to-America%E2%80%99s-GPS

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 Post subject: Re: Go Galileo:Go
PostPosted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 14:01 
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But won’t that add to the billions of space junk we have already causing problems? It’s been in the news recently.

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 Post subject: Re: Go Galileo:Go
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Plans to start up the EU’s first global satellite navigation system (GNSS) built under civilian control, entirely independent of other navigation systems and yet interoperable with them, were approved by MEPs on Wednesday. Both parts of this global system - Galileo and EGNOS - will offer citizens a European alternative to America’s GPS or Russia’s Glonass signals for many applications in their daily lives


Is it the cynic in me that remembers back to the arguments for joining the EEC (Like all the good things, but none of the nasty)

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