Will We Ever Get To See Galileo at Work?

摘要

Europe's Galileo navigation program has come to a halt. The dream of those who saw Galileo as a private undertaking with minimum underpinning from governments has vanished. The eight partners of the consortium that was supposed to carry this project to completion have thrown in the towel. The prospects of a commercial return arc too uncertain to warrant taking the financial risks implied by the huge capital investment required to deploy the 30-satellite network.