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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. Re:which # by Feyr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    from the article:

    GPS 2R-M1 will assume the Plane C, Slot 4 position, taking over for the GPS 2A-20 craft launched in May 1993.

  2. competing? by MooseTick · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "The government is now competing with Europe's Galileo system"

    It is also competing with the gps system I am building in my garage and will launch from my backyard in 2015.

    The European system hasn't left the ground yet. Let's not call it competing until it is functioning. Also, how are they competing? Does the US system make money?

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