THIS magazine recently reported that the Pentagon is anxious about the European Space Agency’s Galileo network of position-finding satellites (7 June, p 13). It claims that Galileo could interfere with the US’s own Global Positioning System. With Galileo promising to give more accurate navigational signals than GPS, I asked Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, for his opinion.
Hoon said that the government fully supports the Galileo project, which will provide Europe with a civil satellite-based positioning system. That will give the UK and the wider European Union good commercial and industrial opportunities. However, he added, as well as the…
