Re: [time-nuts] Health of GPS constellation questioned -- recently there have been more satellite outages than ever before

2006-09-07 Thread Bart Smit
On Wed, September 6, 2006 5:22, Christopher Hoover said: [ the story seems overblown to me, but still worth sharing. follow the last link for some real data. - ch ] The last link is interesting indeed. Seems that the problems are more perceived than real, with the GPS constellation operating

Re: [time-nuts] Health of GPS constellation questioned

2006-09-07 Thread Neon John
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:12:07 +0200 (CEST), Bart Smit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, September 6, 2006 5:22, Christopher Hoover said: [ the story seems overblown to me, but still worth sharing. follow the last link for some real data. - ch ] The last link is interesting indeed. Seems that

Re: [time-nuts] Health of GPS constellation questioned -- recently there have been more satellite outages than ever before

2006-09-06 Thread Normand Martel
I've got this today from http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/gpscurr.html UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY (USNO) GPS CONSTELLATION STATUS

Re: [time-nuts] Health of GPS constellation questioned -- recently there have been more satellite outages than ever before

2006-09-06 Thread bg
On Wed, September 6, 2006 18:16, Normand Martel said: BTW, on all the 26 live stellites, only six (01, 08, 10, 24, 27 and 30) run on Cesium standards, all other rely on Rubidium. 73 de Normand Martel VE2UM Montreal, Qc. Canada. The latest greatest SVs do not have Cesiums - only Rubidiums.