CHINA and India have added their political clout, not to mention their cash, to the development of Europe’s controversial satellite positioning system, Galileo. On 31 October, China committed €200 million while India pledged €260 million a few days earlier.
The move is likely to anger US hawks, who say Galileo might interfere with their own Global Positioning System. A more likely cause for their concern is that it will quickly outperform the ageing GPS, leaving the US at a military disadvantage.
The European Union and the European Space Agency stress that their constellation of 30 satellites is being designed to…
