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Remembering the start of it and seeing the US pressuring enough to alter Galileo to be US-blockable[1] makes me feel old. Really excited though to see it finall
by padelt 10y ago
Remembering the start of it and seeing the US pressuring enough to alter Galileo to be US-blockable[1] makes me feel old.
Really excited though to see it finally getting usable.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)#Tension_with_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)...
- Loic 10y agoThe cited Wikipedia page links to a wonderful SVG animation[0] comparing the orbit levels (do we say altitude?) and speed of GPS, GLONASS and Galileo. [0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Comparison_satellite_navigation_orbits.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Comparis...
- joosters 10y agoIs there a reason why GPS has an orbital period exactly half of that of a geostationary orbit?
- Rebelgecko 10y agoIt means that the satellite will be in the same place at the same time every day (give or take about a hundred miles per day of drift)
- digi_owl 10y agoOld man De Gaulle may have been on the right track after all...