The Bush Administration's incoherence on this matter only serves to encourage its critics at home and abroad to redouble their efforts to impose an approach that would, as a practical matter, permanently foreclose assured U.S. access to and control of space.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Straw in the solar wind

SSTL, who is helping build Galileo (and is acutely aware of its cost, no doubt), views smartphones as a way to democratize access to space because they are far less expensive than purpose-built control systems.

ENGADGET: SSTL using Android handsets to control satellites, conquer the final frontier