'GPS could fail by 2010' - Cripes!

[aviator]

\'GPS could fail by 2010\' - Cripes!

GPS could fail by 2010 - Mail report

The article in the link says it all. Of course the very last line says probably the most likely option but typically you need to read thru etc etc.

Anyway if true sounds like the charts are back in - real ones that is !!!

Pip Pip

 

[oceanfroggie]

Re: \'GPS could fail by 2010\' - Cripes!

Utter baloney!

Pure media make it up as you go along bull5h1t.

The GPS network needs only 21 active satellites and 3 backup. Currently there are 31 GPS serviceable satellites in orbit, which leaves than 10 spare for backup. Galleleo is a decade away from widespread useability if indeed it ever offers a practical alternative to the GPS system, and it's usless as it won't work with any existing hardware (ie plotters, car sat nav, etc). This piece of media entertainment is a joke probably written by researchers that only use google and wikipedia for their information.

PS: The media could tell the truth by 2100 /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Giblets]

Re: \'GPS could fail by 2010\' - Cripes!

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Anyway if true sounds like the charts are back in - real ones that is !!!

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That'll confuse a good few people then. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[oceanfroggie]

Re: \'GPS could fail by 2010\' - Cripes!

Agree for coastal passage making DR and eyeball navigation using paper charts is easy with the most basic chart and compass work. But it won't happen.

 

[Nick_H]

Re: \'GPS could fail by 2010\' - Cripes!

It sounds like a scare story spread by whoever administers the GPS satellites, to secure more funding.

 

[gjgm]

Re: \'GPS could fail by 2010\' - Cripes!

Utter baloney!

Dont be absurd.... it was in the Mail and the Guardian...... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[nonitoo]

Re: \'GPS could fail by 2010\' - Cripes!

I think you will find that the 'threat' to motorists or indeed us is minor compared to the use the US military have for the system.

Not only that but in the US DGPS is starting to be used for precision airport approach by passenger aircraft.

I doubt if the US authorities would dare allow the system to go down.

Yet another scare story on a slow news day.

Tom

 

[oceanpilgrim]

Re: \'GPS could fail by 2010\' - Cripes!

trust any thing writen in a comic ,lets start again.......
once upon a time in gps land.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[mjf]

Gyro

Yep - just like the London Metro jurno who reckons he steered the IOW ferry this week by Giro???

 

[volvopaul]

Re: \'GPS could fail by 2010\' - Cripes!

Must buy a pencil then!