Galileo Update Dec 2005 - The World's Best Navigation System

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Galileo Update December 2005

This year, every European is going to get a very special Christmas present. The launch of Giove, scheduled for 26 December, will mark the inauguration of Galileo, Europeís own satellite navigation system. Like Americaís GPS, Galileo is a worldwide system. Unlike GPS, however, itís a civilian system with a service guarantee, which is fundamental for commercial services and competition on the global market for satellite navigation. It will also be compatible with GPS. (Images of Giove development in ESTEC, then launch animation - just one satellite in orbit. Cut to use of GPS terminal in driving car in Paris :) Navigation satellites transmit timing signals of extreme precision. These enable anybody with a small cheap receiver to determine his or her position on the globe, or the direction of a moving object. The accuracy is one metre, or even less. (3D animation of man on globe ñ cut away to a boat with a GPS receiver)

Galileo, an initiative by ESA and the European Union, will eve