[Talk-GB] Sat Navs to stop working?

David Earl david at frankieandshadow.com
Thu May 21 09:49:03 BST 2009


New Scietists covered this more than a month ago, and has another 
article this week:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227085.700-ageing-satellites-put-gps-at-risk.html
which references the original report on which this story has been based
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09325.pdf

David

On 21/05/2009 09:23, Douglas Furlong wrote:
> My father phoned me last night to discuss it.
> 
> I've not listened to the show, however my understanding is that, they 
> satellites are gradually reducing in orbit and as such will eventually 
> drop on our heads, as opposed to letting us know where we are.
> 
> Apparently the US Military have not spent any money putting new ones up, 
> hence the problem.
> 
> Some how though, I really do doubt that it would all just stop working, 
> the US I would have thought would need to have their own system, and I 
> doubt they would like loosing all the money that the GPS system brings in.
> 
> 
> 2009/5/21 Russ Phillips <russ at phillipsuk.org <mailto:russ at phillipsuk.org>>
> 
>     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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