BRUSSELS. Five years on from the launch of the first satellites, the Galileo, the new and ambitious european satellite navigation programme, will start operating from tomorrow, 15 December. The community initiative is the most important and politically significant. The european Union has in fact equipped itself with a tool that will allow you to liberate from the american technology in a field that in recent years has offered new and rich economic opportunities.
“The geo-localization is at the heart of the digital revolution and with new services is transforming our daily lives – has explained the vice-president of the european Commission Maros Sefcovic –. Galileo will enhance the accuracy of geo-location 10 times and will allow the new generation of technologies based on this principle to see the light. Today I say to european entrepreneurs: imagine what you can do with Galileo. Don’t wait-innovate!”.
The Galileo system is based on 30 satellites, in orbit around the earth. The launches will be completed by 2020; currently the satellites in orbit are 18. Tomorrow will offer at least four types of services. Give support to emergency operations, reducing just 10 minutes from the location of people in distress anywhere in the world. At the same time, Galileo will provide a new satellite navigation service completely free of charge.
The new satellite navigation programme will also serve to improve the synchronization of telecommunications infrastructure or energy. Also, it will guarantee to the public service network encrypted, to use in case of emergencies or terrorist for example. At the time of the launch of the first satellites, the european Commission has estimated that Galileo could generate a workforce of 90 billion euro over the next twenty years.
By 2018, all cars sold in Europe will be equipped with a link with Galileo. Italy is playing a significant role in the new satellite navigation program, not only through the companies Thales Alenia Space and Space Opal, both of which are present in the consortium. Some of the satellites that have already been sent into orbit, at a distance of 23 kilometers from the earth, were assembled at the satellite integration Center of Thales Alenia Space in Rome.
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