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Galileo and GPS: the difficult "space-sharing" has been solved

Berlin, Germany - An agreement between EU and USA on the European satellite programme has been reached

The new Galileo european global positioning satellite system will be able to coexist with the US NAVSTAR GPS. It is what stems from the recent EU-USA agreement on the subject reached on last Wednesday. After thousand disputes related to the supposed possibility of serious interferences by the European system with the GPS (see for details AVIONEWS), EU and USA have succeeded in resolving differences...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 59338
Rome, Italy, 03/01/2004 16:29
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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