Galileo goes live!
Europe's satellite navigation system Galileo will start offering initial services to public authorities, businesses and citizens on 15 December 2016.
With the Declaration of Initial Services, which will be officially announced by the European Commission in Brussels, Galileo, in conjunction with GPS, will start to deliver the following services free of charge:
Support to emergency operations: Today it can take hours to detect a person lost at sea or in the mountains. W [...]