The European Space Agency (ESA) today placed in orbit a new pair of satellites for navigation system Galileo, a constellation that already has ten twenty-six devices that will be in operation by 2020 to compete with the American GPS. The launch of "Alba" and "Oriana", on Board of a Russian rocket Soyuz, operated by the European Consortium Arianespace, took place from the center space European of Kourou, in French Guiana, at 02.08 GMT. It's two devices manufactured by OHB and Surrey Satellite Technology and received its name in honor of two European girls who won a drawing contest to promote interest in Aerospace Sciences.
The European Space Agency has put into orbit at the end of the year another new pair of satellites to reinforce a system that is operational, although far from its full capacity, and that is compatible with the GPS. It is the first navigation service of civil and not controlled by the armed forces, as its American competitor, in which Europe has been working for two decades and who aspires to be much more accurate than GPS. After numerous cost overruns and delays, the first satellites of the Galileo system entered into orbit in October 2011 and the two preceding last March. In August 2014, the launch of the first two operational satellites, since the former had mission validate orbits, is launched in 2014 and supposed dream failure for the project. A problem with the fuel of the Soyuz made that "Doresa" and "Milena" ended up in a wrong orbit, about 17,000 kilometers from the Earth, instead of which corresponded to them, a circular 23,000 kilometers. The following releases, however, did not show any faults and allowed to continue with the planned deployment of the constellation, which will provide advantages in management of transport (increased safety, congestion reduction or streamlining of operations), agriculture, fishing, health and fight against illegal immigration.
The city of Madrid has strengthened control over the companies responsible for combating dirt on the streets of the capital. One of the measures taken has been the adoption of a monitoring system by GPS «to check that don't leave any area without making», as explained by this week the CEO of cleaning and waste services, Victor Sarabia.Esta formula was tested during the timely reinforcement which is underway in the city points that accumulated more neighborhood complaints about the presence of waste and bad smells. In particular, as needed in the Area of environment and mobility, remote monitoring has been used with wash down vehicles and in view of the results has been chosen to pursue it. Statistic priori already reflects the intensification of this control, but it could also make the reading that the streets are dirtier since now Madrid succeeded the PP at the forefront of the Cibeles Palace in June. In so far this year the awarding of cleaning have been fined with discounts of 5.5 million euros, of which 2.5 million (45% of the total) have been implemented during the last three months. In 2013 the City Hall took to contest the maintenance of streets divided into six lots, which were awarded four companies (FCC, OHL, Sacyr and Urbaser). They are that are doing the work of sanitation and municipal inspectors - about 80 dedicated exclusively to this task - which oversee that this has been done in some appropriate conditions pursuant to a document with 68 indicators.
