Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07MADRID20
2007-01-05 14:52:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Madrid
Cable title:
SPANISH RESPONSE TO GALILEO DEMARCHE
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UNCLAS MADRID 000020
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR OES/SAT (MAUREEN WALKER) AND EUR/WE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: TSPA SENV KTIA SPCE SP
SUBJECT: SPANISH RESPONSE TO GALILEO DEMARCHE
REF: 06 SECSTATE 196107
UNCLAS MADRID 000020
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR OES/SAT (MAUREEN WALKER) AND EUR/WE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: TSPA SENV KTIA SPCE SP
SUBJECT: SPANISH RESPONSE TO GALILEO DEMARCHE
REF: 06 SECSTATE 196107
1. ESTHOFF made reftel points January 5 to MFA Deputy
Director General for International Economic Relations Juan
Luis Munoz de Laborde, asking about the status of Spanish
ratification of U.S.-EU GPS Galileo Cooperation Agreement and
whether Spain plans to mandate that GOS entities utilize
Galileo for future spaced-based positioning, navigation and
timing (PNT) needs. Munoz de Laborde offered the following
information:
-- Spain ratified the U.S.-EU GPS Galileo Cooperation
Agreement on May 8, 2006.
-- Spain does not plan to subsidize the operation of
Galileo, as the EU agreement that launched Galileo called for
the system to be run as a private consortium.
-- Per EU agreement, Spain and other EU states have and will
continue to subsidize the construction and launching of the
satellites that will put Galileo in place. These monies are
passed via the European Space Agency.
-- Spain does not plan to mandate that GOS entities use
Galileo for future PNT needs. Spanish government agencies
will be free to contract with GPS, GLONASS, or other
competitors in the PNT market.
2. The Spanish press reports that Spain has committed to pay
10 percent of the expected 3.6 billion euro cost to develop
and launch the 30 Galileo satellites that will be put in
orbit by 2011. This would make Spain the EU's fifth largest
supplier of such funds. The press reports that Spain has
provided 105 million euro to date and that the balance of
Madrid's 360 million euro contribution will be provided prior
to 2011.
LLORENS
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR OES/SAT (MAUREEN WALKER) AND EUR/WE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: TSPA SENV KTIA SPCE SP
SUBJECT: SPANISH RESPONSE TO GALILEO DEMARCHE
REF: 06 SECSTATE 196107
1. ESTHOFF made reftel points January 5 to MFA Deputy
Director General for International Economic Relations Juan
Luis Munoz de Laborde, asking about the status of Spanish
ratification of U.S.-EU GPS Galileo Cooperation Agreement and
whether Spain plans to mandate that GOS entities utilize
Galileo for future spaced-based positioning, navigation and
timing (PNT) needs. Munoz de Laborde offered the following
information:
-- Spain ratified the U.S.-EU GPS Galileo Cooperation
Agreement on May 8, 2006.
-- Spain does not plan to subsidize the operation of
Galileo, as the EU agreement that launched Galileo called for
the system to be run as a private consortium.
-- Per EU agreement, Spain and other EU states have and will
continue to subsidize the construction and launching of the
satellites that will put Galileo in place. These monies are
passed via the European Space Agency.
-- Spain does not plan to mandate that GOS entities use
Galileo for future PNT needs. Spanish government agencies
will be free to contract with GPS, GLONASS, or other
competitors in the PNT market.
2. The Spanish press reports that Spain has committed to pay
10 percent of the expected 3.6 billion euro cost to develop
and launch the 30 Galileo satellites that will be put in
orbit by 2011. This would make Spain the EU's fifth largest
supplier of such funds. The press reports that Spain has
provided 105 million euro to date and that the balance of
Madrid's 360 million euro contribution will be provided prior
to 2011.
LLORENS