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First modernized GPS satellite Launched

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. Spaceballs by q-the-impaler · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  2. Too Little Too Late by qwp · · 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..

  3. Re:Jamming, eh? by iamlucky13 · · 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.