-------- In message <5673c1bd.6070...@rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:
>It seems like the biggest problem for Loran-C is that they have not been >able to build an economical model to support it. That it complements the >GPS and GLONASS systems, as well as GALILEO in a somewhat different mode >disturbance is a technical detail which doesn't ripple though the reports. No, it's really very simple, in Europe it is all about saving face. The political bluff which should have moved GPS control to NATO rather than DoD failed, and forced the EU to follow through. Finding the claimed eager private investors failed predictably and in the end EU had to fund Galileo with tax money, precisely like pretty much every had predicted. Then the draft European Radio Navigation Plan said that at few millions on LORAN produced 40% of the benefit while all the billions for Galileo hardly produced any[1]. In other words: Some almost-pensioners with 50 year old cold-war tech were about 100 times more cost-efficient than the biggest political prestige project of EU's history. No wonder all copies of that draft has vanished from the surface of the planet. Poul-Henning [1] The two lost/marooned Galileo sats have cost about the same as updating and running Loran-C for 10-15 years would have. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | 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 To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.