India's quest for a Worldwide Positioning Satellite (GPS) system has ended. It wants access the Russian Worldwide navigation Satellite system (GLONASS), ending speculation that India what considering being a part of the network, formerly a military system, now open to civilian use.

India's search for a GPS system had seen it engage in negotiations with the European project Galileo, but the push had run into security concerns. Indian negotiators were satisfied that the information accessible on the proposed system what adequately firewalled against individuals and possible military users. China is part of Galileo. China is also part of Galileo.

Recent discussions with Russia had seen reports read week that India could be part of GLONASS. A decision has now been taken and India wants be able to access the constellation of active satellites which transmit coded signals in two frequency bands.
[via indiatimes]

The Darmstädter CAPCOM AG has together with the Frankfurt Corporate Identity agency M² OF CROSS MEDIA the new appearance for CESAH, to the founder's centre for uses of the future European satellite navigation system Galileo, ent-wickelt.

On the basis of the enterprise strategy the new name was translated into an attractive word-picture brand. This shows in symbolic kind of the satellite navigation 3 On gave of the new satellite navigation centre.

In narrow vote with her principal developed CAPCom and M² OF CROSS MEDIA an appearance which distinguishes itself by visual independence and stresses the technological background. The implementing of the new Corporate designs should be concluded on all CESAH media as quickly as possible. This concerns for the time being the commercial printed matter and the web site. Dies betrifft vorerst die Geschäftsdrucksachen und den Internet-Auftritt.

With GALILEO Europe will create a new generation of satellite navigation system. Beside a higher exactness in particular a guarantee is given to the user by GALILEO for the availability and reliability of the system which there will not be with the American GPS also in future. With it many new uses are only allowed in the civil area. GALILEO will be available after extensive tests and tests in which the European space controlling centre ESOC will be substantially involved in Darmstadt at the beginning of the next decade. [pressemitteilung] Damit werden viele neue Anwendungen im zivilen Bereich erst ermöglicht. GALILEO wird nach umfangreichen Tests und Erprobungen, an denen das europäische Raumfahrtkontrollzentrum ESOC in Darmstadt wesentlich beteiligt sein wird, zu Beginn des nächsten Jahrzehnts verfügbar sein.[pressemitteilung]

Munich Satellite navigation Summit, from the 6th to the 8th of March, 2007

The points of the international satellite Navigations municipality assemble from the 6th to the 8th of March, 2007 with the Munich Satellite navigation Summit. During three days enterprisers, scientists and politicians discuss in the Munich residence topical developments of the satellite navigation and political settings the course. The institute of Geodäsie and navigation of the Munich armed forces university as an organizer moves like already last year the Sat Nav project Galileo as a main focus in the centre of the considerations. Das Institut für Geodäsie und Navigation der Münchner Bundeswehr-Universität als Veranstalter rückt wie bereits im vergangenen Jahr das Sat-Nav-Projekt Galileo als einen Schwerpunkt ins Zentrum der Betrachtungen.

Among the rest, the experts discuss chances and need of an untimely development of Galileo uses for the preparation on the start of the system in 2011. But also the modernisation of the American GPS as well as a report of the German astronaut Thomas rider of his 6-month stay on the international space station International Space Station stand on the programme.

In parallel with the congress enterprises and research establishments on an exquisite fair in the Munich residence introduce her latest developments of the satellite navigation., Among the rest, exhibitors are EADS Astrium, the Galileo-developing enterprise of European Satellite navigation Industries and the Erlanger Fraunhofer institute of integrated circuits (International Space Station). Including is also Invest in Bavaria. The central place for settlement care and location marketing of the Bavarian economics ministry advertises to Bavaria as a centre of the European satellite navigation and offers enterprise from the young branch to support and information with the settlement in the free state. Mit dabei ist auch Invest in Bavaria. Die zentrale Stelle für Ansiedlungsbetreuung und Standortmarketing des Bayerischen Wirtschaftsministeriums wirbt für Bayern als Zentrum der europäischen Satellitennavigation und bietet Unternehmen aus der jungen Branche Unterstützung und Informationen bei der Ansiedlung im Freistaat an.

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The planned European navigation system Galileo which will make metre-exactly detectable from 2011 positions on the earth should be utilised after the traffic use.

The centrum for satellite navigation Hessen (Cesah) has introduced in addition on Thursday in the Darmstadt Esa-satellite controlling centre the first promising uses. If a satellite-supported flood warning, an interactive guide belongs to it for documenta in Kassel as well as a software platform to the capture and to the exchange of geodata on mobile final devices. The uses some to itself to benefit that the Galileo system is more exact around a multiple than the American Worldwide Positioning currently usable system (GPS). Die Anwendungen manchen sich zu Nutze, dass das Galileo-System um ein Vielfaches genauer ist als das derzeit nutzbare amerikanische Global Positioning System (GPS).

Thus the Darmstadt company Eeta_max space to the prototypes of the so-called "g WaLe system" (Galileo Supported Measurement of Water has introduced level) which should warn in flood to threatened areas about rising water level recorders. The system disposes of a row of mobile, swimming Galileo receivers with whom divergences of the water level recorder can be grasped. As soon as the water level recorder becomes critical, the system alarms the responsible places and can warn even affected local residents directly. Sobald der Wasserpegel kritisch wird, alarmiert das System die zuständigen Stellen und kann sogar betroffene Anwohner direkt warnen.
[via handelsblatt.com]

The first feedbacks of Giove-A have symbolic character, Ralf Willenbrock, Project finds manager the IT service provider Gedas. „Now Galileo is finally more than only an idea“, according to Willenbrock which deals for four years with the technology. Especially: Now in January the European syndicate Galileo Industries of the European space agency Esa got finally green light for the financing of the first project phase at the rate of 1, 5 milliard euros. Zumal: Im Januar bekam das europäische Konsortium Galileo Industries von der europäischen Weltraumagentur Esa nun endgültig grünes Licht für die Finanzierung der ersten Projektphase in Höhe von 1, 5 Milliarden Euro.

Now should be worked busily on Galileo uses. However, this year the subject still takes place in relatively modest magnitudes on the Cebit. On a 60 square metre communal state seven companies and institutions present themselves to draw the attention to her Galileo competence – under it Gedas. The IT enterprise, till recently subsidiary of Volkswagen, is a component of a network from Lower Saxony which wants to bundle up the competence in the matter of Galileo uses in the triangle between Hannover, Brunswick and Wolfsburg. Thus security-critical uses should be certificated near of the research airport of Brunswick. Auf einem 60 Quadratmeter großen Gemeinschaftsstand präsentieren sich sieben Firmen und Institutionen, um auf ihre Galileo-Kompetenzen aufmerksam zu machen – darunter Gedas. Das IT-Unternehmen, bis vor kurzem Tochtergesellschaft von Volkswagen, ist Bestandteil eines niedersächsischen Netzwerkes, das im Dreieck zwischen Hannover, Braunschweig und Wolfsburg die Kompetenz in Sachen Galileo-Anwendungen bündeln will. So sollen nahe des Forschungsflughafens Braunschweig sicherheitskritische Anwendungen zertifiziert werden.
[via handelsblatt.com]

Prime Minister Roland Koch of Hessen in the Darmstadt founder's centre for uses of the European navigation system calculates Galileo on 1000 new jobs. One dozen founders of a new business has introduced there yesterday the first results of working. More exactly than GPS The mehrmonatige approach phase is over, in an office building of the European space controlling centre of Esoc in Darmstadt Jung's enterprisers have worked out the quite first economic use ideas for Galileo navigation and yesterday have presented arms in the visit of the Prime Minister. If there belongs to it the football-size model of a buoy which, put out on rivers, exact data about water level and high water danger delivers. Another enterprise wants to use with this year's documenta-art show in Kassel satellite-supported mobile navigation mobile phones as a multimedia guide for tourists. Also a system to the exact ground measurement with concurrent data transfer in engineer's offices is already developed in the founder's centre. Koch counts to end of the year with up to 20 founder companies who occupy later in each case from 50 to 100 employees.Präziser als GPS Die mehrmonatige Anlaufphase ist vorbei, in einem Bürogebäude des europäischen Raumfahrtkontrollzentrums Esoc in Darmstadt haben Jungunternehmer schon erste wirtschaftliche Anwendungsideen für Galileo-Navigation ausgetüftelt und gestern beim Besuch des Ministerpräsidenten präsentiert. Dazu gehört das fußballgroße Modell einer Boje, die, auf Flüssen ausgesetzt, exakte Daten über Pegelstand und Hochwassergefahr liefert. Ein anderes Unternehmen will bei der diesjährigen documenta-Kunstschau in Kassel satellitengestützte mobile Navigationshandys als multimedialen Reiseführer für Touristen einsetzen. Auch ein System zur genauen Bodenvermessung bei gleichzeitiger Datenübertragung in Ingenieurbüros ist im Gründerzentrum schon entwickelt. Koch rechnet bis Jahresende mit bis zu 20 Gründerfirmen, die später jeweils 50 bis 100 Mitarbeiter beschäftigen.
[whole article of wormser newspaper]

On Thursday Prime Minister Roland Koch has opened the Galileo-founder's centre of Cesah, there should develop to proficient uses for the European navigation satellite. The mobile phone as a city guide, the exact prediction of high water, the admission of traffic accidents and processing of these data by software: If the European satellite-navigation system Galileo is fit from 2010, it should make easier to the person in many areas the life. If it goes after Hessian Prime Minister Roland Koch (CDU), Darmstadt becomes „one of the most important points for satellite navigation” European-wide. It should make possible the centrum officially started running on Thursday for satellite navigation Hessen (Cesah) which should inform the economy about Galileo and allow the development of fit products on Galileo base to founders by financial as well as technical support. Wenn das europäische Satelliten-Navigationssystem Galileo ab 2010 einsatzfähig ist, soll es dem Menschen in vielen Bereichen das Leben erleichtern. Geht es nach dem hessischen Ministerpräsidenten Roland Koch (CDU), wird Darmstadt „einer der wichtigsten Punkte für Satellitennavigation” europaweit. Möglich machen soll es das am Donnerstag offiziell in Betrieb genommene Centrum für Satellitennavigation Hessen (Cesah), das die Wirtschaft über Galileo informieren und Gründern durch finanzielle sowie fachliche Unterstützung die Entwicklung einsatzfähiger Produkte auf Galileo-Basis ermöglichen soll.

In the extreme southern corner of Bavaria situated Berchtesgarden, is richer around an attraction. At four mountaintops all around the market place signal givers of the planned new satellite navigation system "Galileo" were installed; they simulate satellite signals to the test of final devices with whose help of late drivers and other users of the system can exactly determine her exact location on the metre. New „Galileo TestUmgebung and developing surroundings“ (GATE) of the company IfEN GmbH was put into operation on yesterday's Thursday at 14:30 o'clock. For the first time Galileo signals were received with it in the free field test. The signals came from the mountaintops rising around Berchtesgaden of the green stone, the Hirschkaser, the throaty stone house and the Stöhrhaus. The signal was caught by a receipt device in the national multi-storey car park and the result in the form of the exact aerial position was presented to the being astonished visitors. sie simulieren Satellitensignale zum Test von Endgeräten, mit deren Hilfe später Autofahrer und andere Nutzer des Systems ihren genauen Standort auf den Meter genau bestimmen können. Die neue „Galileo Test- und Entwicklungsumgebung“ (GATE) der Firma IfEN GmbH wurde am gestrigen Donnerstag um 14:30 Uhr in Betrieb genommen. Erstmals wurden damit Galileo-Signale im freien Feldversuch empfangen. Die Signale kamen von den um Berchtesgaden aufragenden Berggipfeln des Grünstein, dem Hirschkaser, dem Kehlsteinhaus und dem Stöhrhaus. Das Signal wurde von einem Empfangsgerät im Nationalparkhaus aufgefangen und das Ergebnis in Form der genauen Antennenposition den staunenden Besuchern präsentiert.
From the beginning of May, 2007 the test company of the arrangement should start for other users in Berchtesgaden. Then, for example, coaches should be able to be steered in Berchtesgaden satellitengesteuert with the help of Galileo data. On the official introduction of the new satellite navigation system Galileo it is not calculated before 2010. Till then another 30 satellites should be shot in all. Until it is so far, final device manufacturers can test her receivings in the Berchtesgadener country. Mit der offiziellen Inbetriebnahme des neuen Satellitennavigationssystems Galileo wird nicht vor 2010 gerechnet. Bis dahin sollen noch 30 Satelliten ins All geschossen werden. Bis es so weit ist, können Endgerätehersteller ihre Empfangsanlagen im Berchtesgadener Land testen.

The DLR in February wants to begin the test company together with well-chosen enterprises. Then from May the about 65 square kilometre area should be open for all interested companies. For a fee from up to 18,400 euros per week they can test, like software, devices and uses with the Galileo signals manage. “If you can navigate in these surroundings, know that it functions in the whole world”, according to Jacquemot. Für eine Gebühr von bis zu 18.400 Euro pro Woche können sie testen, wie Software, Geräte und Anwendungen mit den Galileo-Signalen zurecht kommen. “Wenn Sie in dieser Umgebung navigieren können, wissen Sie, dass es auf der ganzen Welt funktioniert”, so Jacquemot.
[via heise.de]