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EU and US pave way for sat-nay revolution
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ME EUROPEAN satellite network that will facilitate in-cab navigational aids for operators Ind encourage the development of high-tech road tolls has taken two major steps towards completion.
American and European Union :EU) negotiators have struck a ieal over the frequency to be used 3y the Galileo system.This follows }nee years of talks bedevilled by )roblems over its potential intererence with the US's planned VI-code military signal.
Now Brussels and Washington lave agreed that Galileo and he US-based GPS system will ise compatible frequencies and ignals, allowing interoperability md preventing interference with nilitary transmissions.
EU transport Commissioner ,Joyola de Palacio says: "This will tllow all users to use, in a corn plementary way. both systems with the same receiver. It creates indeed the world standard of radio navigation by satellite."
The news comes as France's Starsem and Ariane space organisations have signed a contract with the European Space Agency to build and launch two experimental Galileo satellites aboard Soyuz launch vehicles from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan by 2006.
This would be the first opera-. lion of the system, which should be fully online by the end of 2008. The satellites are an essential prerequisite of European Commission plans for EU toll systems to incorporate satellite and mobile communications technology from 2008-10. But the network will arrive too late for the proposed start of the UK system in 2006.