I never understood how the PPP (Public Private Partnership) model was ever going to work on Galileo. The recent "drop out" of private funding proves my point. Unfortunately the EU (another white elephant or whale!) will continue to pump taxpayers hard earned money into this system to save face.
Cheers Rob Kimberley -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: 20 May 2007 04:54 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Galileo satellites to have passive hydrogen masers! In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jason Rabel" writes: >It's about a week old, but still interesting if you didn't come across >the article yet (like me)... > >The Galileo satellites will have a pair of passive hydrogen masers and >a pair of rubidium clocks in them... > >Ooo la la... ;) > >http://www.gpsdaily.com/reports/Hyper_Accurate_Clocks___The_Beating_Hea >rt_Of >_Galileo_999.html ... provided somebody wants to foot the bill for Galileo in the first place. The "the users will be queueing up to pay for half of the cost through fees" model has just collapsed, and the EU will now have to decide if they want to sink tax money into this particular white whale. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
