Thanks for writing this.
The title doesn't mention that Galileo is a Global Navigation System (GPS).
The title doesn't mention that Galileo is a Global Navigation System (GPS).
Saying Galileo is a GPS is like saying Target is a Walmart.
For a while, as new systems were coming online, GPS was being used as a generic term, and the US system was being referred to by its original name, NAVSTAR.
But only purists would do that, and everyone else kept saying GPS to refer to the US system, so the new term GNSS was invented as the generic.
I try to say NAVSTAR and GNSS to avoid the ambiguous GPS, just like I say "gridiron" and "soccer" to avoid "football".
Perhaps the same sort of space nerds who still call Dish Network "Echostar."
/Waves hand.
/waves a trusty Omnipoint phone