Galileo global positioning satellite system has trouble

According to a report from the European Aerospace Agency, Galileo global positioning satellite system had a problem and had to temporarily shut down.

Galileo is Europe's global positioning system, independent of the US GPS navigation system, Russia's GLONASS and Beidou / Compass of China.

Galileo global positioning system.(Photo: express.co.uk).

Thanks to the Galileo system, drivers, mobile phone users, rescue services or many other services can easily use the global positioning database conveniently.

According to the announcement from the website 'InsideGNSS', some problems of Galileo system began to appear from July 11. A technical problem from the ground control station in Italy is the cause of this important navigation system to be temporarily suspended. In the early morning of July 15, the incident was overcome.

The European Union Galileo navigation system (EU) has been developing since the early 2000s. The system is designed with 30 satellites, of which 27 satellites operate continuously covering the entire signal on Earth. . By December 2018, the European Commission finally introduced the system's first services after years of construction and testing.

This project constantly faced many criticisms, especially the issue of rising costs and delayed for many years. In early 2017, this system also encountered a major problem when a technical error occurred on many satellites of the system.

After a year of official operation, the system has about 100 million users, mainly using smartphones to locate. The outstanding advantage of the Galileo system is its accuracy of up to 30cm, compared to about 5m of the GPS navigation system.

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