Dave, I had no agenda here. I was just pointing to the announcement. Galileo will be a rival to US's GPS system. I am aware that military get much higher accuracy and for that matter the manufacturers for military versions of GPS charge a great deal of money for it. Think US Luxury car pricing.
What Galileo will certainly do is push down pricing and increase availability. I'm not sure how many non-military applications really need 1-meter or better accuracy but presumably it will loosen the GPS restrictions. Danny David L. Mills wrote: > Danny & Co., > > I'm not a defender of any political agenda here, but I would like to > correct the general assumption, as evident in the interviews last night, > that the Galileo system is more accurate than the GPS system. The GPS L1 > signal available to the general public has a nominal accuracy (PDoP) of > 30 meters; however, with the L2 signal and P code with capable receiver, > it has a nominal PDoP of one meter, comparable to Galileo. The P code is > available only to the USA military at present. I would assume once > Galileo reaches operational status there is no need to keep the P code > secret. > > Folks might forget the Russian GLONASS system, which is very similar to > GPS and Galileo, has been around for over twenty years. It is not clear > how long it will last or whether it can be maintained to the order of > GPS and Galileo. > > Dave > > Danny Mayer wrote: > >> Giove-A has been successfully launched and is a precursor to the full >> Galileo satellite navigation system. Its payload include two rubidium >> atomic clocks. >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4555298.stm >> >> Danny >> _______________________________________________ >> questions mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions >> > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
