Hi Magnus, Just read up on their website, they cannot disable the WAAS signal because it would disable all GPS WAAS landing approaches in the USA. A very big deal. When it fails, they will be landing aircraft with only one GPS bird for a while, and no backup! So it will continue to transmit, until it looses earth-lock, which they expect to happen in the next couple of weeks due to the Sat's momentum wheels saturating.. Exciting stuff! BTW: seems like no one is monitoring this on their GPSDO's? bye, Said In a message dated 7/7/2010 01:05:07 Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
If it still has power, oriented in the right direction (antennas down) and they keep beaming signals to it, it will work. If they don't beam signals into it, it would still sit there and broadcast, so they might as well use it. The best thing for them would be a loss of orientation control if not a complete power failure would save them. If it spins, it will get less power and less amount of time it would be facing the earth with it's noise transmissions. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
