Galileo

[Pavlov Konstantin]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:16:24PM +0100, Ian Stirling wrote:
> Ewan Oughton wrote:
> >On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Ian Stirling wrote:
> >
> >>http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wish_List_-_Hardware#Galileo.2FGLONASS.2FGPS_receiver 
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >GLONASS?
> >
> >
> >Isn't that the Soviet GPS-alike that is mostly dead? What's remains of 
> >it I believe is currently optimised for use in Russian military 
> >deployments in Chechnya.. Doubt it's going to be a viable tech any time 
> >soon. Also, finding a chip comparible in size / cost to the Hammerhead 
> >would be difficult.
> 
> It's had new satellites launched recently and commitments have been made 
> to bring it fully online well before the completion of Galilleo.
> 
> It _was_ decaying rapidly into uselessness only several years ago.

Yeah, and here you can see the most portable GLONASS reciever:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Glonass-reciever.jpg

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