An article at ITweek.com explains how the current constellation of GPS satellites is aging and beyond their expected lifetime. Norman Bonnor, a retired RAF Air Commodore and President of the Royal Institute of Navigation, says that service interruptions are a real possibility given the age of the equipment and current rate of satellite replacement.
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New GPS Satellites Needed at the ITweek.com website.
# posted by MapWatch @ Thursday, October 20, 2005
