China’s space ambitions

[Administrator]

Nearly a decade after the U.S. clamped down on the transfer of dual-use American space technology to China, commercial aerospace cooperation between the two countries has all but died. Yet in this period, China’s space and military capabilities, including those designed to defeat U.S. forces in East Asia, have advanced exponentially.

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2008/04/3406827

[Glen Gibbons Jr.]

Generally well-constructed article on China's military program. One note: Pedro Pedreira is not really "the European Commission's director for the Galileo program." That would be Paul Verhoef, head of the Galileo unit in the European Commission's Directorate for Transport and Energy.

Pedreira is the executive director of the European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA), which, even following the European Parliament's passage of a new Galileo regulation on April 23, is still identified as a "Community agency," that is, its governing board is comprised of representatives from the 25 EU member-states. Nonetheless, despite some remaining ambiguities, the new regulation puts it under the direction of the European Commission. Originally designed to be the licensing authority for private undertakings within the public-private partnership first planned, the GSA will now instead monitor the implementation of security procedures and perform system security audits. It will also be responsible for establishing and operating the new Galileo security center.

Glen Gibbons, editor
Inside GNSS magazine
www.insidegnss.com

[grndpndr]

How much of this capability would you gentlemen attribute to homegrown R+D
and how much to industrial and military spying.I guess not that it maters much once the abilitys established .

[The Universal Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by grndpndr

How much of this capability would you gentlemen attribute to homegrown R+D

Define "home grown".

Originally Posted by grndpndr

and how much to industrial and military spying.I guess not that it maters much once the abilitys established .

Not one little bit.