The introduction of the European satellite navigation system Galileo is possibly in difficulties. Of an announcement of the Financial Times according to Germany the satellites necessary for the detection system are planned heavier than. A cause should be raised demands for the reliability. Ursache sollen erhöhte Anforderungen an die Zuverlässigkeit sein.

Should the planned weight be crossed, nevertheless, more rocket starts would be necessary to place 30 Orbiter in the end in the space. This would raise the total expenses for the plan which are estimated at the moment at 3.4 milliard euros clearly.

Currently the advertising runs for the construction of the Galileo satellites. The enterprise EADS Astrium as well as the Bremen group OHB apply for the order. Ingo to angels, Galileo project manager with OHB, denies the problems. Though the final figure of the satellites is still in work, “but from our point of view no problem consists in keeping to the Höchstgewicht given in the advertising of 730 kilogrammes”, says angels Ingo Engeln, Galileo-Projektleiter bei OHB, streitet die Probleme ab. Die endgültige Gestalt der Satelliten sei zwar noch in Arbeit, “aber aus unserer Sicht besteht kein Problem darin, das in der Ausschreibung vorgegebene Höchstgewicht von 730 Kilogramm einzuhalten”, sagt Engeln

Because a start of Ariane 5 costs about the 120 million euros, an additional start would already force up the total expenses for the European competition system to GPS. If everything runs, however, after plan, Galileo will be operational in the end of 2013. SpringQuelle

In a press release minister of transport Wolfgang Tiefensee why explains Galileo so importantly is for the European Union.

“Take the second exit of the traffic of a circle, then you turn right”, the women's voice of my Navi requests me friendly, however, certainly. If I do not keep to it and choose another way, it becomes clear: “Please, turn!” “Bitte wenden Sie!”

“Nevertheless, I have found the way always well with the map for what do I need such a device?”, I thought long. Since I have it, I do not want to miss it any more. Even if I did not know long how it finds generally exactly the way. Seit ich es habe, will ich es nicht mehr missen. Auch wenn ich lange nicht wusste, wie es überhaupt so genau den Weg findet.

Germany used American GPS. Now with big expense the European Union wants to develop her own satellite navigation system Galileo. In 2013 it should be ready. Then 30 satellites circle the earth and deliver position data in inconceivable exactness. 2013 soll es fertig sein. 30 Satelliten umkreisen dann die Erde und liefern Positionsdaten in unvorstellbarer Genauigkeit.

“Galileo is the technology project of the European Union”, says Federal Minister of Transport Wolfgang Tiefensee. “We push the doors on for the 21st century. We want to develop the space driving technologies in Europe, not in America or Asia.” Wir wollen die Raumfahrtechnologien in Europa entwickeln, nicht in Amerika oder Asien.”

For the satellite navigation depth lake counts in ten years on a market of 400 milliard euros. Before this background are now together from states and enterprises to angry 3.4 milliard euros of well invested money. This is valid the more than the minister counts on more than 100,000 jobs in Europe which might originate directly from Galileo. Dies gilt umso mehr, als der Minister mit über 100.000 Arbeitsplätzen in Europa rechnet, die direkt durch Galileo entstehen dürften.

In the meantime, the first two test satellites circle Giove-A1 and Giove B the earth and serve the test and development of the system. Giove is the abbreviation for "Galileo In Orbit Validation Element" – and at the same time the Italian name for the planet Jupiter.

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The European satellite-navigation project Galileo has officially opened his first ground controlling centre. In the Bavarian Oberpfaffenhofen a controlling centre was furnished in the German centre for aviation and astronautics (DLR).

The ground centres should control together with worldwide 35 ground stations 30 satellites which circle the earth at 23,000-kilometre height. “Galileo comes. In Oberpfaffenhofen this is visible from today for everybody”, according to Federal Minister of Transport Wolfgang Tiefensee on the occasion of the handing over of the controlling centre to the German centre for aviation and astronautics (DLR). With the new controlling centre should originate up to 100 jobs in Germany. Throughout Europe approximately 150,000 jobs should be created by Galileo. The immediate phase of the preparations to the company of the future European satellite navigation system begins for the employees of the new Galileo-controlling centre Galileo“ with the today, said Prof. Johann Dietrich Wörner, chairman of the board of the DLR. Wörner repeated:“ With the company of the Galileo-controlling centre shows the DLR how important the location of Oberpfaffenhofen is and which economic factor the science shows if she moves together with the politics and other partners in a rope.” In Oberpfaffenhofen ist das ab heute für alle sichtbar”, so Bundesverkehrsminister Wolfgang Tiefensee anlässlich der Übergabe des Kontrollzentrums an das Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR). Mit dem neuen Kontrollzentrum sollen bis zu 100 Arbeitsplätze in Deutschland entstehen. Europaweit sollen durch Galileo circa 150.000 Arbeitsplätze geschaffen werden. Mit dem heutigen Tag beginnt für die Mitarbeiter des neuen Galileo-Kontrollzentrums die unmittelbare Phase der Vorbereitungen zum Betrieb des zukünftigen europäischen Satellitennavigationssystems Galileo“, sagte Prof. Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Vorstandsvorsitzender des DLR. Wörner sagte weiter: “Mit dem Betrieb des Galileo-Kontrollzentrums zeigt das DLR, wie wichtig der Standort Oberpfaffenhofen ist und welchen Wirtschaftsfaktor die Wissenschaft darstellt, wenn sie gemeinsam mit der Politik und anderen Partnern an einem Strang zieht.”

“Schultes of Frank Architekten” from Berlin handed a symbolic key to the DLR in a ceremonious ceremony. The meaning of the Galileo project for Europe, Germany and Bavaria was emphasised by the presence of the EU commissioner for traffic, Antonio Tajani, the Prime Minister of the free state Bavaria, Günther Beckstein, as well as the Bavarian Minister of State Emilia Müller and Matthias von Randow, Assistant Secretary in the Federal Ministry of traffic, construction and urban development.

The world market for satellite-supported products and services reached in 2005 a volume from 60 milliard euros and should grow till 2025 on 400 milliard euros, estimates the European commission.
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The European Union has anew written out the establishment of the planned European satellite navigation system "Galileo" on Tuesday. Six packages enclose the orders: System planning, ground facilities, controlling system, satellite construction as well as stationing and company of a total of 30 satellites. The order value of the detection system might lie with more than three milliard euros. Syndicates and enterprises could apply from all over the world, one said in the European commission in Brussels. Originally the satellite-navigation system should already go this year to company, nevertheless, the industrial syndicate commissioned first with the construction fell out with the EU commission and the EU ministers of transport. Therefore, became the new advertising Systemplanung, Bodeneinrichtungen, Kontrollsystem, Satellitenbau sowie Stationierung und Betrieb der insgesamt 30 Satelliten.Der Auftragswert für das Ortungssystem dürfte bei mehr als drei Milliarden Euro liegen. Bewerben könnten sich Konsortien und Unternehmen aus aller Welt, hieß es in der Europäischen Kommission in Brüssel. Ursprünglich sollte das Satelliten-Navigationssystem schon in diesem Jahr in Betrieb gehen, das zunächst mit dem Aufbau beauftragte Industriekonsortium überwarf sich jedoch mit der EU-Kommission und den EU-Verkehrsministern. Deshalb wurde die Neuausschreibung
necessarily.

Ten days after his start the test satellite has sent his first signal for the navigation system Galileo to the earth to GIOVE B on Wednesday. The European space agency (ESA) spoke of a «historical date» for the satellite navigation because GIOVE B sent the first signal which is used together by Galileo and the US system GPS. The today's signal is the proof that both detection services are tuned on each other and are able of group, explained the ESA in Paris. Das heutige Signal ist der Beweis, dass beide Ortungsdienste aufeinander abgestimmt und verbundfähig sind, erklärte die ESA in Paris. 

GIOVE B should prove a future superiority of the European detection system at cost of 3.4 milliard euros compared with GPS. As the earliest appointment for the introduction of Galileo is valid 2013. The satellite was shot on the 27th of April in all and circles the earth at a height of 23,000 metres. Der Satellit wurde am 27. April ins All geschossen und umkreist die Erde in einer Höhe von 23.000 Metern.

A Russian carrier rocket has brought on Sunday early in the morning “Giove of B”, the second test satellite for the European navigation system Galileo, successfully in an earth orbit.
The 530-kilogramme-test satellite has been put out at 23,000-kilometre height successfully in the intended orbit, announced the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS.

"Giove A" had been brought already on the 28th of May, 2005 by a Russian "Sojus" carrier rocket in an orbit.

The satellite GIOVE B is a European communal work: He was developed by German and British specialists of the EADS daughter Astrium together with Alcatel Space Industries from France, Alenia Spazio from Italy and Galileo Sistemas y Servicios from Spain. In GIOVE B some base functions of the planned satellite-navigation system Galileo should be tested. An GIOVE-B sollen einige Basisfunktionen des geplanten Satelliten-Navigationssystems Galileo getestet werden.
Originally the satellite should start already in spring, 2006 in all, however, the schedule was delayed because of a defect in the board computer.

more efficiently than his predecessor GIOVE-A who already circles since the 28th of December, 2005 in all and was built by the British enterprise Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL)., Among the rest, GIOVE B has the most exact atomic clock aboard which was tested in the universe. The sogenannnte hydrogen curl technology is exact on the Nanosekunde. Die sogenannnte Wasserstoff-Maser-Technologie ist auf die Nanosekunde genau.
An exact clock is indispensable for the satellite navigation. Since to the position regulation calculates the receipt device which is possibly in a car, how long the signals which it receives from the satellites were on the move.
The abbreviation GIOVE stands for «Galileo in orbit Validation element», too in German: «Element for the test of Galileo in the orbit». Giove is at the same time the Italian name of the planet Jupiter and with it a reference to the scientist Galileo Galilei according to which the planned satellite-navigation system is named: Galilei discovered in 1610 the first four Jupiter moons. At that time he already found out that can be determined with the help of these four natural satellites on which degree of longitude of the earth the observer was. Giove ist zugleich der italienische Name des Planeten Jupiter und damit eine Referenz an den Wissenschaftler Galileo Galilei, nach dem das geplante Satelliten-Navigationssystem benannt ist: Galilei entdeckte im Jahr 1610 die ersten vier Jupiter-Monde. Er stellte damals schon fest, dass sich anhand dieser vier natürlichen Satelliten bestimmen ließ, auf welchem Längengrad der Erde sich der Beobachter befand.
Only with GIOVE B this will not function yet. The test satellite is there particularly to test the atomic clock and the signal technology in all. The ashlar-shaped satellite is about 2.4 cubic metres without wing and weighs 523 kilogrammes. Two solar wings with a length of 4.34 metres in each case should supply the heavenly body with stream, her achievement amounts to about 1,000 watts. satellit has cost 80 million euros. Der quaderförmige Satellit ist ohne Flügel rund 2,4 Kubikmeter groß und wiegt 523 Kilogramm. Zwei Solarflügel mit einer Länge von jeweils 4,34 Metern sollen den Himmelskörper mit Strom versorgen, ihre Leistung beträgt rund 1.000 Watt. Der satellit hat 80 Millionen Euro gekostet.

With vast majority the EU parliament agreed on Wednesday to the construction of the European satellite navigation system at cost of 3.4 milliard euros Galileo. The new order fixes security standards and advertising rules. Till 2013 Galileo should be ready for use with it. Galileo will be more efficient much than the US system GPS, stressed traffic commissioner Jacques Barrot. Bis 2013 soll Galileo damit betriebsbereit sein. Galileo werde sehr viel effizienter sein als das US-System GPS, betonte Verkehrskommissar Jacques Barrot.

The next Sunday scarcely after midnight the Galileo satellite GIOVE B (”Galileo in orbit Validation element”) is shot by a Sojus rocket of Baikonur in Kazakhstan. After seven hours the satellite will be in the orbit and be steered from Italy, said Cash-red. GIOVE B should be more efficiently than his predecessor GIOVE-A who already circles since the 28th of December, 2005 in all. GIOVE-B soll leistungsfähiger als sein Vorgänger GIOVE-A, der schon seit 28. Dezember 2005 im All kreist, sein.

A new order fixes rules for the order assignment. The infrastructure for Galileo should be split in six main work packages. These are a system-technical support, completion of the mission infrastructure on the ground, completion of the infrastructure for ground control, satellite, start facilities and company. All packages are written out within one single procedure. At least 40 percent of the total value of the activities should be awarded to ancillary industries who do not belong to the contractors of the main work packages. Austria thereby also hopes for orders. All together Galileo should contribute to the creation of 140,000 jobs. Diese sind systemtechnische Unterstützung, Fertigstellung der Missionsinfrastruktur am Boden, Fertigstellung der Infrastruktur für Bodenkontrolle, Satelliten, Starteinrichtungen und Betrieb. Alle Pakete werden innerhalb eines einzigen Verfahrens ausgeschrieben. Mindestens 40 Prozent des Gesamtwertes der Tätigkeiten soll an Zulieferbetriebe vergeben werden, die nicht zu den Auftragnehmern der Hauptarbeitspakete gehören. Dadurch erhofft sich auch Österreich Aufträge. Insgesamt soll Galileo zur Schaffung von 140.000 Arbeitsplätzen beitragen.

ie EU ministers of transport have given finally green light for the European satellite navigation system Galileo. All together 3.4 billion euros from the cash of the union are made available up to 2013 in which the project should be concluded. After the still putting up approval by the European Parliament the Galileo implementation regulation can come into force during the next weeks. “Today with the arrangement of the advice the member states have taken the last hurdle for the realisation of Galileo. Now the German space industry in the train”, according to Federal Minister of Transport Wolfgang Tiefensee is according to the decision of the EU-traffic advice. Nach der noch ausstehenden Billigung durch das Europäische Parlament könne die Galileo-Durchführungsverordnung in den nächsten Wochen in Kraft treten. “Mit der Einigung des Rates haben die Mitgliedstaaten heute die letzte Hürde zur Realisierung von Galileo genommen. Jetzt ist die deutsche Raumfahrtindustrie am Zug”, so Bundesverkehrsminister Wolfgang Tiefensee nach dem Beschluss des EU-Verkehrsrats.

Now with it the necessary political prerau's settlements are fixed for Galileo. The ESA will begin in July with the advertisings and try to conclude this till the end of the year virtually”, explains Ingo construction worker of the German centre for aviation and astronautics (DLR), towards pressetext. If this narrow schedule holds, the first orders could be awarded still in 2008. Depth lake sees in it a big chance for German enterprises. “In particular with the satellite segment and at the company of the controlling centres the German space industry is ready. With it the politics has created the condition for the fact that in Germany many investments and jobs are realised in the high technology area, namely with the real Galileo system as well as with the varied application possibilities. This is a determining impulse for the German aerial industry and space industry”, according to the minister. Hält dieser enge Zeitplan, so könnten noch 2008 die ersten Aufträge vergeben werden. Tiefensee sieht darin eine große Chance für deutsche Unternehmen. “Insbesondere beim Satellitensegment und beim Betrieb der Kontrollzentren steht die deutsche Raumfahrtindustrie bereit. Damit hat die Politik die Voraussetzung dafür geschaffen, dass in Deutschland viele Investitionen und Arbeitsplätze im Hochtechnologiebereich realisiert werden, und zwar sowohl beim eigentlichen Galileo-System als auch bei den vielfältigen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten. Dies ist ein entscheidender Impuls für die deutsche Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie”, so der Minister.

“Giove of B”

Besides, at the end of the month the second experimental satellite “Giove of B” is brought in all, explains construction worker. This will have for the first time the technology in Board of which also the future Galileo satellites dispose. Giove B will begin on the 27th of April with a carrier rocket of the Kazakh space railway station Baikonur. Originally the satellite should have taken off already in spring, 2006, the first test satellite "Giove A" is since 2005 in all. Repeatedly the start was pushed out. Last this was delayed on the basis of problems with the Russian carrier rocket Sojus. Giove B wird am 27. April mit einer Trägerrakete vom kasachischen Weltraumbahnhof Baikonur starten. Ursprünglich hätte der Satellit bereits im Frühjahr 2006 abheben sollen, der erste Testsatellit “Giove A” ist seit 2005 im All. Wiederholt wurde der Start hinausgeschoben. Zuletzt verzögerte sich dieser aufgrund von Problemen mit der russischen Trägerrakete Sojus.

Years behind the schedule

The topical timetable for Galileo intends that the construction should be concluded till 2013. Galileo will exist all together of 30 satellites and be more exact around something than the US-navigation system GPS. The European project lies meanwhile already some years behind the original schedule. At first the financing about an industrial syndicate should occur. For years lasting negotiations about details remained at the end, nevertheless, without success by which the politics had to step in. In November, 2007 agreed, finally, the EU traffic and Minister of Finance about the basic conditions which will attain legal validity now by EU order Das europäische Projekt liegt mittlerweile schon einige Jahre hinter dem ursprünglichen Zeitplan. Anfänglich sollte die Finanzierung über ein Industrie-Konsortium erfolgen. Jahrelang dauernde Verhandlungen über Details blieben am Ende jedoch ohne Erfolg, wodurch die Politik einspringen musste. Im November 2007 einigten sich schließlich die EU-Verkehrs- und Finanzminister über die Rahmenbedingungen, die nun per EU-Verordnung Rechtsgültigkeit erlangen werden

The way for the satellite-navigation system Galileo is free. One week after the arrangement on the financing the governments also came to an agreement about the assignment of the orders heavy to milliard. With it Galileo should be able to go in 2013 to company - five years later than originally planned. Federal Minister of Transport Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD) spoke of the "breakthrough" for the project and at the same time of “brutal industrial politics”. The rules should protect because that the EU companies are involved "appropriately". Besides, Germany expects the orders for the construction of the satellites and for a part of the ground control. The EU ministers of transport followed the proposal of the EU commission to split the construction of Galileo in six order packages which are written out after competitive principles. The company of the controlling stations as well as the construction of the satellites for which from Germany the Astrium belonging to the EADS group and also the Bremen space enterprise OHB want to apply belongs to it. Astrium would be put up for the Galileo missions “very well” and with the order package ground control with the Bavarian location of Oberpfaffenhofen "sedate", said depth lake. Damit soll Galileo 2013 in Betrieb gehen können - fünf Jahre später als ursprünglich geplant. Bundesverkehrsminister Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD) sprach vom “Durchbruch” für das Projekt und zugleich von “knallharter Industriepolitik”. Die Regeln sollen nämlich sichern, dass die EU-Firmen “angemessen” beteiligt werden. Deutschland erwartet dabei die Aufträge zum Bau der Satelliten und für einen Teil der Bodenkontrolle.Die EU-Verkehrsminister folgten dem Vorschlag der EU-Kommission, den Aufbau von Galileo in sechs Auftragspakete aufzuteilen, die nach Wettbewerbsgrundsätzen ausgeschrieben werden. Dazu gehört der Betrieb der Kontrollstationen sowie der Bau der Satelliten, um den sich aus Deutschland die zur EADS-Gruppe gehörende Astrium und auch das Bremer Raumfahrtunternehmen OHB bewerben wollen. Astrium sei für die Galileo-Aufträge “sehr gut aufgestellt” und beim Auftragspaket Bodenkontrolle mit dem bayerischen Standort Oberpfaffenhofen “gesetzt”, sagte Tiefensee.

European minister of Bavaria Markus Söder expects that the Astrium also resident in Munich come by the satellites “appropriately to the train”. Now it must be an aim that the orders went for all still missing 26 satellites to Germany, explained Söder. It was decided by the ministers that first, however, only the construction of from ten to twelve satellites will award by order. The fact that both German suppliers could get Astrium and OHB with the orders for the satellite construction at the same time a surcharge, is at least "theoretically possible", said depth lake on inquiry. Beschlossen wurde von den Ministern, dass zunächst aber nur der Bau von zehn bis zwölf Satelliten in Auftrag vergeben wird. Dass beide deutsche Anbieter Astrium und OHB bei den Aufträgen für den Satellitenbau gleichzeitig einen Zuschlag bekommen könnten, sei zumindest “theoretisch möglich”, sagte Tiefensee auf Nachfrage.

Because the government prevented an unanimously decision in Madrid first, Spain was admitted establishing a third, up to now not planned ground station for Galileo in addition to Oberpfaffenhofen and the controlling station in the Italian Fucino.

The navigation system should allow with the help of 30 satellites a more exact local regulation than currently the US-satellite system to GPS. The position announcements exact on the metre of Galileo have to go in the maritime transport, on the street and the rail, but also, for example, for rescue services which allow quite new uses to fishing and the agriculture.