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Comment Re:Sigh. (Score 1) 101

Incorrect. Galileo went live.... at the end of December 2016 !

https://galileognss.eu/2016/12/

This live "initial services" was said to be not available all the time.... as 4 satellites didn't provide enough coverage. That was then..... The system now has considerably more than 4. The current failure is not being described as because of lack of satellites. Justification for Galileo was for many reasons, including reliability. Back in 2014 there was much criticism, from the EU, of a complete failure of GLONASS... which took a staggering 10 hours for the Russians to fix. A mistake led to incorrect data being uploaded to the satellites and the Russians had to wait for each satellite to pass over Russian territory, where they had upload capability to fix. So the EU has spent considerable, on the ground infrastructure, for reliability and has upload capability across the planet, so that problems can be addressed quickly.

However at the moment we have the largest single GNSS failure.... and no body is available to even update a status page.

Comment Disable GALILEO ? (Score 1) 101

So with Galileo support built into many devices these days, and with the GSA stating:

"UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, USERS EXPERIENCE A SERVICE OUTAGE. THE SIGNALS ARE NOT TO BE USED."

Is your current satellite navigation system's accuracy being compromised by Galileo's failure? Should we be specifically configuring device to exclude Galileo until they can get their act together?

Comment Re:Not in use (Score 1) 101

The EU made a story of it going live, back at the end of 2016.
https://www.gsa.europa.eu/newsroom/news/galileo-goes-live
Clearly stating that the service was moving from testing to live service.... To say that its now in a proving phase... err is a bit of a cheek. What I will say... is that military or not, if something had cost 9 billion in the US... and was supposed to be capable of providing 24x7 service, after a few hours of offline... someone would have to stand up and say what had gone wrong and when it was going to be fixed.

Is everyone on holiday in the EU?

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