Government makes substantial funds available for satellite research in Rostock
The German federal government will provide funds to the tune of 2.5 million euros for research and development work in Rostock on the European satellite-based navigation system Galileo.
In the course of a visit to the Rostock-based technology company RST last Friday Wolfgang Tiefensee, the federal minister responsible for promoting the industries of the eastern federal states that used to make up the German Democratic Republic, said that the groundwork R&D in the field of aerospace technology carried out by companies in Mecklenburg West-Pomerania was of an outstanding quality. Substantial funds would now be invested in Galileo application research, he added.
