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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)?


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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