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 [...]

The U.S. and the EU signed an agreement for their two satellite systems use a common radio frequency. A boost for the European project.