[Talk-GB] Sat Navs to stop working?

[Glenn Proctor]

Media hype, as a result of political maneuvering by one of the several
agencies involved with keeping GPS going[1]. The US is behind on one
of the programs that launches new/replacement satellites, but the
reality is that there are, IIRC, over 30 satellites currently in orbit
plus 2 spares. 24 are needed for full global coverage so there's
plenty of leeway yet.

Glenn.

[1] The fact that there isn't one agency in charge of this is a Bad Thing IMO.



On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Russ Phillips <russ at phillipsuk.org> wrote:
> Yesterday, on Radio 2's drive time show, someone mentioned that sat
> navs would stop working next year. My wife heard it as she was driving
> home, but there were no details.
>
> We can't work out what they were talking about. The Listen Again page is here:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kg9fr
>
> I can't listen to it because I'm at work, but I can't find any mention
> of it on the BBC news pages. Does anyone know what they were talking
> about?
>
> Russ
>
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