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Galileo becomes a reality for Europe

26 May 2003

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Galileo will be Europe’s own global satellite navigation system, providing a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service under civilian control. It will be inter-operable with GPS and GLONASS, the two other global satellite navigation systems. This means that a user will be able to take a position with the same receiver from any of the satellites in any system.

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Global navigation satellite systems help travellers to find their way.

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