Report predicts a one in five chance that the US satellite fleet will drop below the minimum needed for global coverage in 2011 and 2012
24 satellites are needed for total planetary coverage US officials are worried that the 20-year-old global positioning system (GPS) that sat-navs and other navigation devices rely on could begin ...
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