<story><title>Galileo, Europe&apos;s own satnav, to go online</title><url>http://phys.org/news/2016-12-galileo-europe-satnav-online.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>padelt</author><text>Remembering the start of it and seeing the US pressuring enough to alter Galileo to be US-blockable[1] makes me feel old.
Really excited though to see it finally getting usable.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Galileo_(satellite_navigation)#Tension_with_the_United_States&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Galileo_(satellite_navigation)...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Galileo, Europe&apos;s own satnav, to go online</title><url>http://phys.org/news/2016-12-galileo-europe-satnav-online.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tinco</author><text>How does the paid system work? Do they broadcast more precise data in an encrypted format?</text></comment>