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27/09/2007
Italy gives a new boost to Galileo: the foundation stone
laid for the control centre of the European Satellite Navigation
Programme at Telespazio’s Space Centre in Fucino
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The foundation stone for the Galileo Control
Centre of the European satellite navigation
system was laid today at the Telespazio
Space Centre in Fucino, with the participation
of the President of the Senate Franco Marini
and the President of the Abruzzo Region
Ottaviano del Turco.
The new infrastructure, which will cover a surface area of
approximately 4,000 sq.m. and is due to be completed by the
end of 2008 with support from the Abruzzo Region, will house
one of the two Constellation Mission Control Stations for Galileo.
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The second centre is under construction in Oberpfaffenhofen (Munich)
and is to be managed by the German Space Agency (DLR).
The ceremony was attended by the Chairman of Finmeccanica and CEO
Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, the Finmeccanica General Manager
Giorgio Zappa, the Telespazio CEO Giuseppe Veredice, the Director
of European Union and Industrial Programmes at the European Space
Agency Giuseppe Viriglio, and the Head of the European Commission’s
Galileo Unit Paul Verhoef.
Telespazio is one of the major global operators in the space
operations sector and also plays a key role in the development
of the Galileo Programme.
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