Navigation Satellites Over Europe

Posted by michael on Friday June 6, 2003 @10:10PM from the where-is-pudge dept.

Snags writes "It looks like Europe is getting its own equivalent to WAAS (a set of ground stations and geostationary satellites which relay information to help GPS accuracy in the US). The EGNOS system system is having a base station inaugurated in Langen, Germany this week. The system augments signals from GPS and Russia's Glonass to provide 2-meter accuracy in Europe. This is the first stage of the Galileo system reported earlier, and I'm sure these satellites and base stations will perform the same function once the Galileo constellation is flying."

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great just what the planet needs by the_2nd_coming · 2003-06-07 01:41 · Score: 0, Troll

more satelites flying around to lock us in so we cannot explore space.....perfect.

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Re:Unless US blows it up.... by RN · 2003-06-07 04:13 · Score: 0, Troll

wow..thats a funny lie.

you want to point to any credible source he used cocaine? that's right, you can't.

of course any bad, uninformed, false joke about the President will get +5 on slashdot.