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chris_mahan
on Sept 26, 2013
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Hopefully the satellites will continue to operate for GPS. Could it be possible to approximate gps with ground radio stations (cell phones)?
jbangert
on Sept 26, 2013
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GPS relies (heavily) on the satellites knowing their own orbits, which they get from a ground station, which means the satellites would very quickly get very inaccurate (and GPS with 200km accuracy is somewhat useless).
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