[time-nuts] Giove A has become "official" now.

[bg at lysator.liu.se]

On Mon, January 15, 2007 11:41, Poul-Henning Kamp said:

> Surveyors can't be forced to buy this service, they're perfectly happy
> with GPS L1 + L2 and galileos enhanced services don't give them anything
> they will pay for.

Many surveyors use GPS and GLONASS L1+L2 now. Are there there even ONE
major manufacturer of dual freq receivers that have not announced support
for the upcoming Galileo signals. More satellites up there will enable
usage in marginal conditions where today GPS alone fails.

> Roadpricing is the last hope, but that requires the legislative to have
> balls (or ovaries), don't bet on it.

Stranger things happen in Brussels (or Strassbourg).

> My conclusion is that Galileo was a bluff to force GPS under NATA
> control and it didn't work out and now nobody has the balls (or
> ovaries) to admit that.

Or maybe its a system to give the French nuclear forces an alternative
GNSS...  :-)

That said, its sad if Galileo funding problems remove all european Loran-C
funding.

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   Björn