Re: OneWeb must be coming online soon too...
Maybe he assumed ‘knockoffGPS’ from comments like this:
“The UK is spending $500m (£400m) on a stake in failed satellite firm OneWeb as part of a plan to replace use of the EU's Galileo sat-nav system.”
And
“The UK government sees satellites as a way to meet commitments on the roll-out of super-fast broadband and believes OneWeb's constellation could also deliver a precise Positioning, Navigation and Timing service, also known as sat-nav.
The latter has become a political imperative for No 10 since losing membership of Europe's Galileo satellite-navigation system on departure from the EU in January.
Although Galileo's free and open signals remain accessible to the UK, its more secure signals, known as PRS, intended for military and government agency use, are only available to member states. UK ministers want to replace this capacity with a home-grown system.”
From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53279783. I remember this shambles of a government talking about it at the time….
Biting the hand that feeds IT
