First modernized GPS satellite Launched

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First modernized GPS satellite Launched

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 26, 2005 @02:20AM from the keeping-up-with-the-neighbors dept.

A reader writes "The first GPS 2R-M satellite has launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on top of a Boeing Delta 2 rocket. The government is now competing with Europe's Galileo system, and has added two additional military channels and one civilian channel, which will increase the accuracy and performance of GPS - as well as increase its resistance to jamming."

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Spaceballs by q-the-impaler · 2005-09-26 02:27 · Score: 5, Funny

Jammed? Raspberry. There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry. Lone Starr!

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Re:Jamming by whom? by LiquidCoooled · 2005-09-26 02:32 · Score: 1, Funny

I prefered it when Bob Marley was the only one Jamming.

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Re:You Will Be Assimilated! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-26 02:36 · Score: 1, Funny

Looks like the just cable-tied 4 racks together, wrapped them in shiny copperfoil and added some barberpoles on top for extra oomph. Off it goes !
Too Little Too Late by qwp · 2005-09-26 02:45 · Score: 3, Funny

I would have been able to post first post,
had i known about this great achievement. The problem is
I was suck in my car cause I took a wrong turn due to my
dam'ed gps navigator. Maybe they haven't turned it on yet..
Re:Jamming by whom? by mcd7756 · 2005-09-26 03:19 · Score: 2, Funny

They become suicide bombees instead of suicide bombers.

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Re:How do you compete with vaporware (Galileo)? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-26 04:35 · Score: 1, Funny

Hey, it's a European co-operation; we'll be lucky if we see it before 3008. It'll take 50 years just to translate the manual into all 15 languages.
Re:Jamming, eh? by iamlucky13 · 2005-09-26 04:42 · Score: 3, Funny

I don't get it. My first instinct was to try to find a secret code in the capitalized letters, but that didn't work out. Are you attempting to appeal to the slashdot moderators that appear to be scripts by tossing in keywords? If so you're going about it all wrong. You should start with, "I'm gonna get modded down for this," and include the words space elevator, soviet russia, nucular, linux, and intelligent design. Adding in AJAX, ubuntu, and evolved expanded launch vehicle will bump you up from funny or interesting to insightful.
Re:Its about time by gunnk · 2005-09-26 05:15 · Score: 2, Funny

Do you upgrade your computer every time a new processor comes out????

Bad analogy, there, you're posting on Slashdot after all...

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Re:Specs? by stienman · 2005-09-26 06:15 · Score: 2, Funny

Anybody know what's on the new civilian channel? e.g. is it the same kinda stuff as the two existing channels, on a new carrier? Or is it a new code?

According to one of the press conference questions:

"We are not going to confirm the content of the new channel at this time. We can state, however, that due to recent FCC regulations affecting our public broadcast, we will not be including Howard Stern for the initial lineup."

I hope this helps.

-Adam