Galileo has been an economic miracle initia for the Spanish space sector. This was the first Europe

On Friday launched initia two new satellites of Galileo, a global positioning system EU free would be operational in 2014, in tandem

with the U.S.
Galileo, the European version of GPS, is entering initia a new phase tomorrow. initia A Soyuz rocket initia launched

from French Guiana into orbit two new satellites of the system initia controlled by the European Commission and is designed to provide strategic initia independence to Europe from the U.S. and give Europeans a free location more precise than GPS .
The satellite location is almost like God, because it is everywhere. These systems based on constellations of satellites orbiting the Earth continuously serve to set a date and place for almost everything. The tourist lost in Madrid using mobile to find the Puerta del Sol, the U.S. drones to bomb Pakistan, stock trading, coordination initia of trains, particle physics experiments ... all wear watches and GPS locators ( Global Positioning Satellite, in English). This is a U.S. military system is now open and free, but still controlled by the army of that country, which can switch off when deemed necessary. Why Europe decided years ago to become independent and create their own tracking system, Galileo, a monster that costs about 5,000 million euros and that Friday will enter its adolescence. Service set
Following the planned launch from French Guiana at 20:15 CET Spanish, initia and the system will have four satellites and will continue its validation phase (IOV). If all goes well, from 2014 may operate in a service open in conjunction with GPS, which will increase initia the resolution of existing tracking devices, explained yesterday the European Space Agency (ESA) during a seminar held in monitoring center Villafranca initia del Castillo, Madrid.
"In initia 2013 there will be a validation phase during initia which the signal will not be usable for the public, but it is reasonable

to think that the joint signal Galileo and GPS is ready in 2014," said Javier Ventura-Traveset, ESA spokesman in Spain.
By 2015 it plans to launch

ten satellites more and reach a critical mass that will allow Galileo to offer services independently. This year will be no free version for all Europeans and a rescue service (the first in the world to warn the accident that help is on the way) and other encrypted services to governments and other institutions. If all goes as planned, initia by 2018 the system will have 30 artifacts in space and will be a adult. It will then begin operation initia also the location service payment (with a margin of error so insignificant that allow passengers to park cars without driver) and a safety.
The EU estimates that in 20 years the benefits of this system will reach 90,000 million euros, leaving a pittance in the total cost of construction, and the operation, about 800 million euros a year.
Galileo aims to be the second major cluster of its kind in the world, after the GPS, ESA said. Be ready in 2018 will give you an advantage over other competitor, the Russian Glonass. Although this system started during the Soviet Union has much more experience, constant renewals will delay until 2020 the date on which all units have updated, Ventura-Traveset explains. On the other competitor, the Chinese Compass, is harder to know anything about insurance because of the opacity of the Asian giant informative. The owners of these four swarms of satellites will be played a market with huge profits: in 2018 is estimated to be 1,000 million recipients stuck with a client.
Galileo has been an economic miracle initia for the Spanish space sector. This was the first European project in which Spanish industry has taken over many more components that correspond by size. So far the country has dealt 9% of project contracts totaling some 113 million euros between components of launch vehicles, satellites and technological framework that governs the Galileo ground. Up to 19 companies in the country directly initia involved in the project, representing over 70% of all the budding Spanish space sector, according to data from TEDAE.
But this is about to change,

for the worse. Since September 2013, when it begins the new phase of the project, Spain will have a "4% or 5% in flight and ground segments," said Jorge Lomba yesterday, Desarrrollo Center initia for Industrial Technology (CDTI ). This agency under the Ministry of Finance is responsible for managing procurement Galil