Now that's an indictment! One major outage in nearly a decade. Better write off the whole programme as a waste of money.
Meanwhile the whole US government gets shut down seemingly every other year.
Meanwhile the whole US government gets shut down seemingly every other year.
You'll note that I didn't say "Galileo sucks," or "those guys are morons," or that there was no reason to build it. But the fact that it took longer to commission than the original NAVSTAR GPS system doesn't augur well for a Starlink clone. Which, in any event, will probably be so highly regulated and censored that it will be more like an orbital Minitel than a conventional ISP.