Egnos Delays Likely To Limit Testing of System with Galileo

PARIS –Europe’s Egnos system, which augments U.S. GPS and Russian Glonass satellite positioning and timing networks, is not expected to be operational before mid-2009 – at least two years late – and its delay threatens to reduce its value as a test bed for Europe’s future constellation of Galileo navigation satellites, European government officials said at a June 12 hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium.