‘Hello. Is that the European Union? This is Earth.’ It’s a conversation that could have happened at any time in recent years, but if the EU’s planned global satellite system ever actually takes off it might yet become reality.
The plans for ‘Project Galileo’ were dreamt up in the late 1990s.
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