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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10895

25 July 2013
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) industry
Galileo's position fix gives green light for European GPS

Brussels, 24/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - The European satellite navigation system has made another decisive step forward. On Wednesday 24 July, at a public demonstration in Fucino (Italy), Antonio Tajani, the vice-president of the European Commission, announced that it was now possible to obtain a position fix on the basis of the EU's current four Galileo satellites.

This position fix of longitude, latitude and altitude is concrete proof of the ability of the satellite navigation programme to...

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