EGNOS, which improves the accuracy of GPS positioning, can now be used in aviation for the sensitive phases such as pre-landing guidance.

According Deflesselles MP Bernard, author of a report on Galileo in late 2009, the Commission estimated shortage of 1.5 billion euros to finish funding the program.

The Chinese government goes into high gear. To avoid being dependent on American technology solutions that have democratized the satellite positioning with GPS, a competing system called "Beidou" will be finalized in 2015. At that time, it is a constellation of more than 30 satellites into orbit to be [...]

It was in 2004 that the United States and Europe have agreed to make their two systems interoperable satellite positioning respective namely GPS and Galileo. The goal is to eventually allow the use of traditional GPS receivers to catch the next Galileo signals and vice versa. Four years after this agreement, a new session [...]

2 months after his arrival on station of Giove-B, the second satellite validation system Galileo global satellite navigation in Europe, the trials confirm its reliability and ability to phase in-orbit validation (IOV ).

Giove-B was taken by a Soyuz rocket. The European system, rival the American GPS, is to be deployed by 2013 and will include 30 vehicles.

Funding for the project of European satellite positioning, competitor to the U.S. GPS, is provided. The Twenty-seven have decided to use unused farmland.

Dominique Bussereau, Secretary of State for Transport, returns to the agreement reached yesterday, October 2, at 27, to relaunch the European GPS competitor.