Disaggrement in the Future

The European government and industry officials are disputing over the best and most efficient way to contract and deploy the 30-satellite Galileo navigation and timing constellation. Industry and government officials have openly disputing their disagreement over Galileo's direction on June 15th. The European Space Agency wants to launch the 28 Galileo satellites two at a time with Russian Soyuz rockets. This would cost up to 70 million dollars. However the head officer at Astrium Space Transportation wants several Ariane 5 vehicle to be used to launch Galileo. He disagrees with using Russian hardware because it shoes a dependence on Russia. The two point of views will continue to disagree until a reasonable solution is found. This is just a display of the politics involved with launching into space.