Hot news round-up
SSTL's GIOVE-A Galileo test satellite has been in the news again this week. This is mainly as a result of the Government's boost to UK space, increasing Galileo project funding by 20 million as reported by Computing on the Vnunet website.
GIOVE-A has generated interest since its launch on the 28th December because it marked the beginning of a European Space Project to be proud of. Galileo is an exciting development promising exciting new capabilities for services, businesses and the general public.
Meanwhile, there is still talk about Cornell University's work decoding preliminary Galileo test signals from GIOVE-a. The Guardian online recorded this, to our knowledge only the second news source to link to our Space Blog since Spaceref.com and the first to quote your humble space blogger.
The Guardian online also published some additional information on the Galileo signal decoding which we feel may help ease some sore heads.
Of course GIOVE-A is not the only space topic around. Pluto's demotion is still generating a great deal of interest, The Scientific American producing one of the most entertaining blogs, a rival for our own inveterate enthusiast for all things space, Stuart Eves.
