First signals received from Galileo
original article by BBC NEWS
article by Jon Yannick
Europe's first satellite-navigation system, Galileo, built by the UK, sent navigation signals to Earth through Giove-A for the first time on Thursday. "It is a demonstrator for the network that will give Europe its own version of the US Global Positioning System," said BBC NEWS ("First Galileo signals received” 1.13.06).
This 3.4 billion euro project with the European Commission and the European Space Agency, is a service that is 10 times more accurate than other ones available today.
Currently, China, Ukraine, Israel, and South Korea are the only non-European nations to sign up. Francis Tuffy, from the Location and Timing Knowledge Transfer Network said, "Korea's support for Galileo is an important milestone for the project."
"Thursday was the first day when the first actual Galileo signal was sent from space to Earth," said Phillip Davies of Surry Satellite Technology Ltd to the website of BBC NEWS. "If you had receiving equipment, you could have picked it up anywhere on Earth within visibility of the satellite - we picked it up in the UK at the Chilbolton Observatory in Hampshire."
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article by Jon Yannick
Europe's first satellite-navigation system, Galileo, built by the UK, sent navigation signals to Earth through Giove-A for the first time on Thursday. "It is a demonstrator for the network that will give Europe its own version of the US Global Positioning System," said BBC NEWS ("First Galileo signals received” 1.13.06).
This 3.4 billion euro project with the European Commission and the European Space Agency, is a service that is 10 times more accurate than other ones available today.
Currently, China, Ukraine, Israel, and South Korea are the only non-European nations to sign up. Francis Tuffy, from the Location and Timing Knowledge Transfer Network said, "Korea's support for Galileo is an important milestone for the project."
"Thursday was the first day when the first actual Galileo signal was sent from space to Earth," said Phillip Davies of Surry Satellite Technology Ltd to the website of BBC NEWS. "If you had receiving equipment, you could have picked it up anywhere on Earth within visibility of the satellite - we picked it up in the UK at the Chilbolton Observatory in Hampshire."
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