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Article: EC, ESA to Accelerate Satellite Navigation System
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- May 4, 2000
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The European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA)
opened on Thursday a joint office to accelerate the development of
the Galileo Satellite Navigation System.
The Brussels-based office will provide technical support to the
executive body of Europe's space program and to the industrial and
scientific teams working on the Galileo navigation system.
Loyola de Palacio, European Union commissioner for energy and
transport, said that Galileo is one of the most important
technological innovations in the 15-nation bloc for the years to
come.
The office "creates the first permanent physical link between the
two main European institutions which are pressing ahead with work on
the new ...