Reply to post: Re: Sino-European Cooperation Agreement on the Galileo

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, off you go: Snout of UK space forcibly removed from EU satellite trough

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Sino-European Cooperation Agreement on the Galileo

" By 2008, China had everything needed for the Beidou network"

China only went ahead with Beidou v2 (Compass) because it was kicked out of Gallileo at the USA's insistence.

It initially had no intention of building a V2 network and the Beidou v1 birds were _old_, which is why it signed into Gallileo.

Revisionism much?

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