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 21/05/2009 09:23, Douglas Furlong wrote: > 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 money putting new ones up, > hence the problem. > > Some how though, I really do doubt that it would all just stop working, > the US I would have thought would need to have their own system, and I > doubt they would like loosing all the money that the GPS system brings in. > > > 2009/5/21 Russ Phillips <r...@phillipsuk.org <mailto:r...@phillipsuk.org>> > > 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 can't listen to it because I'm at work, but I can't find any mention > of it on the BBC news pages. Does anyone know what they were talking > about? > > Russ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org> > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb