The Galileo satellite-navigation system, whose projected in-service date already has slipped from 2008 to 2011 because of disputes among European governments over financing, risks falling further behind schedule because of a turf war that has all but stopped work on the project, government and industry officials said.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.