Saturday, February 9, 2008

System of Galileo positioning

The system of Galileo positioning (in English Galileo positioning system) is a navigation system to satellitare civil developed in Europe like alternative to the Global Positioning System (GPS), controlled from the Department of the Defense of the United States.

Its commissioning is previewed for 2013 and will count on 30 orbiting satellites on 3 plans tilts on the Equatorto one quota to you 24.000 km.

The main scopes of Galileo are:

* A greater precision to all the customers regarding that one puts into effect them;
* An improved cover of marks them from the satellites, above all for the regions higher latitudes;
* A system of total positioning that can always work also in times of war.

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