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Positioning Navigation and Timing Executives Want More Resiliency for GPS

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5, 2024 – Executives in the positioning, navigation and timing space want more resiliency for GPS in order to ensure communications viability. communications and geopositioning efforts. WASHINGTON, Dec. Both nations have formulated answers to the U.S.

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NextNav: GPS Backup Promises $14.6 Billion in Economic Benefits

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25, 2024 – NextNav, a geolocation company, has made a bold case for a terrestrial GPS backup system, saying it could shield the U.S. The report also introduced an “insurance premium” estimate, which valued the financial benefit of NextNav's proposed system as $10.8 WASHINGTON, Oct. billion for the U.S.

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

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"The digital divide is fundamentally tied to inequality," says Christopher Ali , professor of telecommunications at Penn State University. "We "We often think that it's an infrastructure issue, which is the case in rural and remote and Indigenous communities, but the reason most people don't have internet is price."

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Meeting A National Security Challenge: The Race To GPS Resiliency

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As noted in a National Security Space Association  report , China and Russia already have terrestrial complements to space-based positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), decades after the U.S. originally invented the Global Positioning System (GPS). Government officials are sounding the alarm about how far the U.S.