Why the EU needs its own GPS with Galileo.

I hope that anyone who thinks we don’t was watching last nights BBC Horizon programme What on Earth is wrong with Gravity?

I hope they also paid attention to the segment of the program that visited the USAF GPS headquarters at the Schriever Air Force base.

Yes your friendly Tom Tom is really at the mercy of what the USAF decides what will be today’s accuracy and how often the signal will be updated.

Is it right that such a fundamental tool of ‘today’ should be controlled by one nations military? No, and this is the reason why we need a civilian GPS version and that it is based here in Europe.

Take a look at this short GPS background article, which will bring you up to speed with a number of GPS aspects and what Galileo is all about.