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She said that US diplomats and scientists should ensure that the Global Positioning System should become the world's standard satellite navigation system.
Others say that only Galileo, Europe's planned satellite navigation system, will give the accuracy required.
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Take the arguments for building an expensive EU satellite navigation system, Galileo.
The Asian country is also deploying its own satellite-navigation system known as BeiDou, or Compass.
That has already happened with weather data and with America's GPS satellite-navigation system that was opened for full commercial use a decade ago.
America is planning to improve its satellite-navigation system further: next year, it will start launching a second generation of GPS satellites, which will offer greater accuracy for civilian users and, for military purposes, greater protection against the signal being jammed by an enemy.
Each onboard ADS-B set consists of a Global Positioning System satellite navigation unit, two Pentium microprocessors, some software and a radio transmitter-receiver--not much more gear than you would find behind the dash of a new Cadillac.
While the participants engaged in much discussion there of Iraq, trade and other issues, the most significant result of the meeting may have been an agreement to ensure that Europes Galileo navigation system does not interfere with the frequencies used by Americas Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system .
Meanwhile, Dutch satellite navigation company TomTom, which provided the data for the new map system, told CNN it is not responsible for the way the maps work.
We questioned the starry-eyed revenue and expense forecasts for Galileo, a European satellite navigation venture designed to compete with the U.S.' Global Positioning System.
Precise satellite navigation could remove the need for aircraft to fly longer routes that were partly designed around the old system of ground-radio beacons.
It's always nice to see an old tech stage a comeback and this time it's happening around the coasts of Europe, with nine low-frequency radio transmitters substituting for GPS' satellite-based system. eLoran's radiowave-based system is stronger than satellite signals and less jammable, based on the Loran system that was previously used for shipping navigation by both the British and US navy over 50 years ago.
Pictured at left above, Easton started working at the Naval Research Laboratory in 1943, and later helped develop MINITRACK, the very first satellite tracking system, which in turn led to the concept Easton dubbed TIMATION (short for "time navigation").
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