TRANSPORT COUNCIL : MINISTERS APPROVE NEW GALILEO SATNAV PROJECT DEAL.

Tech Europe, May, 2008

With no unpleasant surprises, the EU's transport ministers, gathered for their Council meeting in Luxembourg on 7 April, unanimously ratified the informal agreement, concluded with the European Parliament several days earlier, on Galileo, the European satellite navigation programme. The agreement was welcomed with a thundering "Vive Galileo" by EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot, which shows very well the general relief after the multiple setbacks that the programme has already had to overcome. The commissioner affirmed that "there is now a solid basis for Galileo to succeed". And he is all the more at ease saying it since in a few days, on 27 April, Giove B, the programme's second test satellite will be launched from the space centre in Baikonur, Kazakhstan....

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