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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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