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Positioning Navigation and Timing Executives Want More Resiliency for GPS

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Global Positioning System in the form of Russia’s GLONASS and China’s BeiDou, with the latter using a mixture of low Earth orbit , middle Earth orbit and geosynchronous satellites to maintain a robust communications and positioning network.  Both nations have formulated answers to the U.S.

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Joe Supan: The Rise and Inevitable Downfall of 7,000 Starlink Satellites

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" I've heard stories like Hopson's a lot in my seven years reporting on the broadband industry and its technology. " Maine's broadband coverage.   Conte tells me that his office has had trouble finding internet providers willing to take grant money to build fiber networks to rural areas in Texas.