Thanks to everyone for the responses. At least now I have some idea of
what the issue is.
Russ
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2009/5/21 Steve Hill :
> 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 goin
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 satellite
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Chris Jones 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 the
>> re
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
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
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 orbit
plus 2 spares. 24 are
2009/5/21 Russ Phillips :
> 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?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/21/gao_predicts_gps_failure/
If the BBC don't have it, Google News usually turns
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 m
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
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