European Galileo project forces U.S. to unveil a new GPS
Published on January 25th, 2006 in gps navigation, misc news
White House today unveiled new GPS capabilities to serve better to commercial purposes. Even though it is still unclear, it sounds like the new system will only consists of a new signal being transmitted from existing satellites hoping that it will be capable of competing with the soon-to-launch European GPS, Galileo. The current U.S. GPS degrades civilian capabilities allowing the army to hog most of the traffic.
“The new signal-known as ‘L2C-was specifically designed with commercial needs in mind,” said Deputy Commerce Secretary David Sampson in remarks prepared for delivery at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce press event this morning. “For example, it is transmitted with a higher effective power, so GPS receivers work better in urban areas and indoors. And it requires less energy to receive the signal, an important feature for battery-powered devices such as mobile phones.”
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