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Global Positioning System = FAIL?

by Sue Walsh on May 20, 2009 at 04:19 PM

A federal watchdog agency is warning Congress that the GPS system may begin to suffer failures and outages starting next year and blamed the Air Force’s mismanagement and and underinvestment for it. “If the Air Force does not meet its schedule goals for development of GPS IIIA satellites, there will… Continue Reading »

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS): Will cover the globe by end of 2009

by Marjorie Dorfman on Dec 29, 2007 at 10:51 PM

The Glonass mapping system, which is managed by the Russian military and currently works over most of Russia, is expected to cover the globe by the end of 2009 when all of its 24 navigational satellites will be operating. Just this week, Russia has successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome,… Continue Reading »

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