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Re: EU Competition?

What's up with you Justthefacts.

Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that went live in 2016.

The Galileo system has a greater accuracy than GPS, having an accuracy of less than 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) when using broadcast ephemeris (GPS: 3 metres or 9.8 feet)[20] and a signal-in-space ranging error (SISRE) of 1.6 centimetres or 0.63 inches (GPS: 2.3 centimetres or 0.91 inches, GLONASS and BeiDou: 4–6 centimetres or 1.6–2.4 inches) when using real-time corrections for satellite orbits and clocks.

Effective 1 April 2018, all new vehicles sold in Europe must support eCall, an automatic emergency response system that dials 112 and transmits Galileo location data in the event of an accident.

Or is it this that annoys you.

"Until late 2018, Galileo was not authorized for use in the United States, and as such, only variably worked on devices that could receive Galileo signals, within United States territory.[179] The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) position on the matter was (and remains) that non-GPS radio navigation satellite systems (RNSS) receivers must be granted a license to receive said signals.[180] A waiver of this requirement for Galileo was requested by the EU and submitted in 2015, and on 6 January 2017, public comment on the matter was requested.[181] On 15 November 2018, the FCC granted the requested waiver, explicitly allowing non-federal consumer devices to access Galileo E1 and E5 frequencies.[182][183] However, most devices, including smartphones still require operating system updates or similar updates to allow the use of Galileo signals within the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)

SpaceX is doing well but the Falcon 9 was just too small and expensive for the James Webb telescope.

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