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The first industrial phase of Galileo, the European satellite navigation system, has taken off thanks to the contract signed on 19 January between Galileo Industries and the European Space Agency (ESA). Galileo Industries - a joint company set up by Alcatel Alenia Space SAS, Alcatel Alenia Space SpA, EADS Astrium GmbH and EADS Astrium Ltd, Thales and Galileo Sistemas y Servicios (GSS) - met its counterpart at the Ministry of Transport in Berlin, where they agreed on a €1 billion contract for the development and supply of four satellites and ground infrastructures by the end of 2008.

These satellites are the first of the 30-satellite constellation required by the Galileo system, an EU-promoted project which includes non-European participants such as China, Israel, the Ukraine and South Korea and aims to soon be able to compete with the US’s GPS ground positioning satellite system. According to its schedule, Galileo should be up and running in 2010… Galileo takes off

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