Yesterday, on Radio 2's drive time show, someone mentioned that sat
navs would stop working next year. My wife heard it as she was driving
home, but there were no details.
We can't work out what they were talking about. The Listen Again page is here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kg9fr
I
My father phoned me last night to discuss it.
I've not listened to the show, however my understanding is that, they
satellites are gradually reducing in orbit and as such will eventually drop
on our heads, as opposed to letting us know where we are.
Apparently the US Military have not spent any
Glenn Proctor wrote:
Media hype, as a result of political maneuvering by one of the several
agencies involved with keeping GPS going[1]. The US is behind on one
of the programs that launches new/replacement satellites, but the
reality is that there are, IIRC, over 30 satellites currently in
New Scietists covered this more than a month ago, and has another
article this week:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227085.700-ageing-satellites-put-gps-at-risk.html
which references the original report on which this story has been based
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09325.pdf
David
On
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Chris Jones roller...@sucs.org wrote:
Glenn Proctor wrote:
Media hype, as a result of political maneuvering by one of the several
agencies involved with keeping GPS going[1]. The US is behind on one
of the programs that launches new/replacement satellites, but
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Chris Jones wrote:
And with any luck Galileo should be up and running in a few years...
They are still claiming they will have 30 sats up by the end of 2013...
assuming that includes the 2 test sats they have in orbit already, they
are going to have to launch 28
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