Merging the two competing bids to manage Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation project as a business is expected to result in a final contract to be signed with the concessionaire by the end of this year, according to the Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU), which is negotiating the contract on behalf of European governments.

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