Brussels, 07/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission announced on Thursday 7 January that it had awarded the three largest Galileo (the European satellite navigation system) contracts for satellites, support services and launch services. The decision, taken after 18 months of assessing the competing offers in each of the three areas, marks the real beginning of this European counterpart of the US GPS and Russian Glonass systems. Early services, such as the Open Service, the Public...