Galileo and Globalization

摘要

As European governments begin debating the appropriate level of non-European industrial participation in the Galileo satellite navigation system, Germany and the European Space Agency (ESA) are staking out protectionist positions that do not serve the program's best interests.rnESA Director-General Jean Jacques Dordain went so far as to suggest that European firms will be marginalized if Galileo is opened up to global competition, raising the specter of a constellation built by the United States and Russia and launched aboard Chinese rockets.