[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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