If Europe’s satellite navigation system gets off the ground, we’ll have the cows to thank.
At a meeting in Brussels on 23 November, the European Council voted to make up the bulk of a 2.4 billion hole in Galileo’s budget by taking unused funds from the agricultural budget. The shortfall was caused by the reluctance of private aerospace companies to invest in the project.
Galileo is a system of 30 satellites and a network of ground stations. The idea is to free Europe of its dependence on the American GPS and Russian GLONASS satellites, both of which are under military…
