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US and EU nearing agreement on GPS / Galileo partnership
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While it's not clear if Russia and China's forthcoming challenges have anything to do with it, the United States and the European Union are apparently close to a deal that would see them work together to improve their respective navigation systems. According to Reuters, the deal would allow both EU and U.S. satellites to send information on the same radio frequency, which would in turn allow receivers to pick up signals from both systems, theoretically ...
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 Tracey - 7/17/2007 9:10:00 AM
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| The EU Galileo system isn't due to be fully operational until 2012, and the US GPS system is in the process of updating their GPS systems which will be ready to be launched come 2013. So, looks like it could be a while off... but it will be interesting to see if the agreement goes ahead(http://www.globalpositioningsystems.co.uk/news_article.php?article_id=756) |
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