The European Union has commissioned Bremen’s space travel company OHB to build 14 satellites. This marks the beginning of the satellite navigation system Galileo,which has been in planning for years. Starting in 2014,Galileo will compete with the American GPS system.OHB’s contract is worth 566 million euros. The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company,EADS,was hoping to win some of the bidding for the Galileo program. That the much smaller company OHB got the nod is a bit of a sensation. Report by Carmen Meyer.