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Satellite Glitch Rekindles GPS Concerns

Posted by samzenpus on from the close-enough dept.

coondoggie writes "News today that the Air Force is investigating signal problems with its latest Global Positioning System satellite is likely to rekindle the flames of a congressional report last month that said the current GPS coverage may not be so ubiquitous in the future. The Air Force stated that routine early orbit checkout procedures determined that the signals from the Lockheed-built GPS IIR-2 (M), which was launched in March, were inconsistent with the performance of other GPS IIR-M satellites. The Air Force said it has identified several parameters in the GPS IIR-20 (M)'s navigation message that can be corrected to bring the satellite into compliance with current GPS Performance Standards."

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  1. Could it be related to this ? ;-)) by ls671 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could it be related to this ? ;-))

    http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/12/1713237

    Hehe... ;-)

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  2. Followup on the story by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to Air Force officials, the previous story was incorrect and the GPS are working properly. The person responsible for the false story has been apprehended and will face a military tribunal. These are not the droids you are looking for.

    Move along.

  3. Copyright Violation by jimand · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doesn't "re-kindling" violate one of Amazon's copyrights?

  4. Re:Warning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1273011&cid=28372241 It works for Wikipedia, right?

  5. solution: by space_hippy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Buy an atlas.

  6. Re:GPS will be just fine by jamesh · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can someone please explain this to Microsoft? In words they can understand?

    If you don't work for Microsoft, no explanation is necessary. If you do work for Microsoft, no explanation is possible.

    (with apologies to whoever I paraphrased)

  7. Re:GPS will be just fine by TeXMaster · · Score: 1, Funny

    Have you ever tested new code with new features and found some bugs?

    No, we only write perfect code.

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  8. Re:GPS will be just fine by digitig · · Score: 2, Funny

    I work at Microsoft, we just ship, ship and ship. What is this testing you speak of?

    It's what you do to the installed software, to make sure the user has paid for it.

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