India insists on operational control of Galileo

Business News India Channel : Latest Business News & Current Affairs of India, updated hourly by "new kerala.com": "The Galileo system, named after the famous Italian physicist and astronomer and in which China is also involved, has been conceived as an alternative to the Global Positioning System (GPS) of the US.

The GPS is a worldwide radio navigation system supported by a constellation of 24 satellites and their ground stations. "