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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NAVSTAR
Message-ID: <1988Oct28.181443.25747@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3551@phri.UUCP> <1365@thumper.bellcore.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 88 18:14:43 GMT

In article <1365@thumper.bellcore.com> karn@thumper.UUCP (Phil R. Karn) writes:
>SATNAV does *not* use GPS satellites. They use the older Navy TRANSIT
>navigation satellites operating in relatively low polar orbits...

Support for which will naturally be discontinued after GPS is operational.
You just spent $nnnn on a SATNAV receiver?  That's too bad.  Support for
GPS will continue forever, of course.  Well, sort of forever.  As long as
the US military needs it, and maybe a little bit longer.  Five minutes
longer, maybe ten if you're lucky.

(Do you begin to understand why a lot of potential GPS customers, notably
international ones, would be a lot happier if GPS wasn't run by the US
military?)
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