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India's GAGAN delayed 2-3 years 29/07/2010
The GPS-Aided Geo-Augmented Navigation system - the equivalent of WAAS or EGNOS - has been delayed by a launch failure.
GLONASS operational 'by January' 28/07/2010
The constellation will give global cover by early 2011, according to the Head of the Russian Space Agency.
Airbus A321 landing accident 28/07/2010
The Airblue aircraft crashed in poor weather on approach to Islamabad, Pakistan. All 152 on board were killed.
GPS III passes Critical Design Review 26/07/2010
The GPS III navigation payload has passed its Critical Design Review.
EC to halve road deaths by 2020 25/07/2010
Last week saw the EC adopting plans to reduce the number of road deaths in Europe by half in the next 10 years.
GLONASS launch rocket damaged 22/07/2010
Two outsize cargo trains - one carrying components of a Proton-M rocket - have scraped each other, possibly jeopardising the next ...more
The EC appears tp be about to order the builders of the 4 Galileo IOV satellites to remove the Chinese-built SAR payloads. The move results from an evolving security and technology-independence policy - according to EC, government and industry officials at the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit.It seems that similar restrictions will apply to the full 30-satellite Galileo constellation, and prevent the EC from purchasing SAR terminals from Canada’s Com Dev - despite Canada’s status as an associate of ESA.The 4 IOV satellites are in final assembly with Astrium and Thales Alenia Space. Their launch has slipped from 2010 to 2011.The explanation appears to be that when Galileo was a private-sector development with public financial participation, the EC sought Chinese participation in pursuit of Chinese cash in the short term and privileged longer term cooperation. But that business model collapsed and Galileo is now a 100% taxpayer-financed project.So China seems to have been removed from the Galileo programme - and is building its own global system, Beidou/Compass.Details from Space Flight below . .
The EC appears tp be about to order the builders of the 4 Galileo IOV satellites to remove the Chinese-built SAR payloads.
The move results from an evolving security and technology-independence policy - according to EC, government and industry officials at the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit.It seems that similar restrictions will apply to the full 30-satellite Galileo constellation, and prevent the EC from purchasing SAR terminals from Canada’s Com Dev - despite Canada’s status as an associate of ESA.The 4 IOV satellites are in final assembly with Astrium and Thales Alenia Space. Their launch has slipped from 2010 to 2011.The explanation appears to be that when Galileo was a private-sector development with public financial participation, the EC sought Chinese participation in pursuit of Chinese cash in the short term and privileged longer term cooperation. But that business model collapsed and Galileo is now a 100% taxpayer-financed project.So China seems to have been removed from the Galileo programme - and is building its own global system, Beidou/Compass.Details from Space Flight below . .