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savimportweb
on July 25, 2018
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The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup P...
GPS is american, Europeans have the Galileo system, and the russians have glonass. aren't those a backup plan
AdamJacobMuller
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and many "GPS" chipsets actually read both GPS and GLONASS. In the future most systems will probably read at least 3 of the global systems (India and China are also deploying/planning on deploying their own systems).
krageon
on July 26, 2018
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Yes, but that wouldn't make for a satisfying headline.
sunstone
on July 25, 2018
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If I'm not mistaken China has one in the works as well.
sunstone
on July 26, 2018
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For some reason this comment collected a few down votes so here is a reference to the Chinese GPS system [1]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_Sy...
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