When the U.S. Government Accountability Officereleased a reportsaying that worldwide Global Positioning System operation is likely to disgrace in the next few old age , lot of people , public and private , kinda flipped . remind the inevitable about - brass , proper about … now .
https://gizmodo.com/gps-may-be-less-accurate-in-2010-5255179
TheAir Forcerecently halt a Twitter newsworthiness group discussion to a — wait , what ?
Force Space Command ’s subject - matter - expert on the Global Positioning System ( GPS ) program will chitter on the bidding ’s site , www.twitter.com / AFSpace , in reply to the recent Government Accountability Office report on the GPS program .
Apparently , the F-22 Raptor was only phase out to unblock up some investment firm to buy everyone Twitterific permission . Anyway .
The league was mean to assuage the people ’s reverence of haywire satnavs and inconsistence Loopt performance . This was apparent from the jump :
The progeny is under controller . We are form severely to get out the word . The government issue is not whether GPS will arrest working . There ’s only a small jeopardy we will not continue to outstrip our execution criterion . check w/ GAO thr ’s a potential risk , but GPS is n’t fall out of the sky — we have plans 2 mitigate peril & prevent a gap .
But that ’s not terribly specific , and they more - or - less said that they correspond with the late report . Well , not wholly :
We have 30 + satellites on orbit now . We ’ll launch another in Aug 09 , and again early 10 . proceed below 24 wo n’t happen .
spend below 24 satellite was the central concern of theinitial account , and the subject of all its various probability calculations : when reporters mouth about the 90 % chance ofGPS degradationby 2017 , they were actually mention to the chance of the orbiter configuration dip below 24 .
So the Air Force is pretty trusted they can prevent that , now that they know . That ’s reassuring , but also exactly what they kind of have to say , being that GPS is a critical dick not just for widget enthusiasts , but for military and corporations around the globe . [ PC WorldviaTechRadar ]
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