{"id":1786692,"date":"2018-11-15T18:13:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T23:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786692"},"modified":"2018-11-15T18:13:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T23:13:11","slug":"galileo-approved-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/galileo-approved-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Galileo Approved in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1786694\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/galileo-approved-in-the-united-states\/galileo-logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/galileo-logo.png\" data-orig-size=\"200,201\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"galileo-logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/galileo-logo.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/galileo-logo.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1786694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/galileo-logo-150x150.png\" alt=\"Galileo logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/galileo-logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/galileo-logo.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/11\/15\/18097154\/fcc-ajit-pai-gps-location-accuracy-galileo\">The FCC has approved the use of the European Galileo satellite navigation system<\/a> in mobile devices in the United States. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)\">Galileo<\/a> is similar to GPS and the Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GLONASS\">GLONASS<\/a>, but the satellite constellation won&#8217;t be complete until 2020 or so. Even so, devices like recent iPhones (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsa.europa.eu\/newsroom\/news\/latest-iphone-8-iphone-8-plus-and-iphone-x-are-galileo-enabled\">from the 8 and X on<\/a>) have support built-in. (Many smartphones have had GLONASS support for years.) <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.fcc.gov\/public\/attachments\/DOC-355098A1.pdf\">FCC press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FCC has approved the use of the European Galileo satellite navigation system in mobile devices in the United States. Galileo is similar to GPS and the Russian GLONASS, but the satellite constellation won&#8217;t be&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/galileo-approved-in-the-united-states\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[1309],"class_list":["post-1786692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-gps","tag-galileo","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1809201,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/09\/india-pushing-phone-makers-to-adopt-navic\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786692,"position":0},"title":"India Pushing Phone Makers to Adopt NavIC","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 September 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Reuters reports that the Indian government is pushing mobile phone makers to include support for NavIC, the Indian-government owned satellite navigation system. 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Whereas the first two iterations of Beidou offered regional coverage, this third iteration\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;GPS&quot;","block_context":{"text":"GPS","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/gps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Beidou logo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/beidou-logo-150x150.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1809677,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/11\/esa-considering-low-orbit-satellites-to-improve-galileo-system\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786692,"position":3},"title":"ESA Considering Low-Orbit Satellites to Improve Galileo System","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 November 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"The idea of using low-earth-orbit satellites to provide greater GPS\/GNSS accuracy isn\u2019t limited to commandeering the Starlink constellation. 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