As Galileo Finances Tighten Europe Spreads the Burden

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China likely will build the search-and-rescue pay-on board Europe's Galileo satellite navigation constellation as part of an attempt to ease budget pressures on Galileo's main underwriters, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission, European government and industry officials said. The decision is the latest example of how the 30-satellite Galileo system will take on a more international character as technologies not deemed strategic or militarily sensitive are farmed out to lower-cost compa-nies in nations outside Europe that also are investing in Galileo, officials, said.