Navigation at Farnborough Air Show 2014
Date: Thursday, July 17 @ 10:50:23 UTC
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This year’s Farnborough International Airshow featured lots of flying hardware and was declared a success on the first day with aircraft orders totalling $33 billion and a further $8 billion committed for engines. It goes without saying that the aircraft displays were quite spectacular with passenger aircraft acting like nimble fighter jets, and the fighter jets themselves roaring around the skies with afterburners ablaze.
Aside from the magnificent flying machines there was a section of the exhibition halls dedicated to space called the Space Zone. If you get a chance to visit it during the public days it is well worth a visit. In particular, from a navigation perspective, ESA are there with a Galileo display, Roscosmos were also there with the new GLONASS-K satellite, and not forgetting Surrey Satellite Technology who built the Galileo test satellites. Apart from that anyone interested in space will find a wealth of information on both the rockets, spacecraft, and operators from the Eastern Atlantic region (Europe and Russia).
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