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NextNav: GPS Backup Promises $14.6 Billion in Economic Benefits

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The report also introduced an “insurance premium” estimate, which valued the financial benefit of NextNav's proposed system as $10.8   GPS – the Global Positioning System – is a U.S.-owned, billion over 20 years. 

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A Guide to Wireless Communication

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It encompasses various technologies and mediums, such as radio waves, microwaves, and infrared signals, to transmit data over short and long distances. Fundamentals of Wireless Communication At its core, wireless communication involves transmitting signals through the air rather than through physical cables.

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

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"What we'll do is, instead of people having to have multiple dishes, we'll just improve the satellite signal and the receive signal, and you'll have gigabit, 2 gigabit per second speeds." Space junk is a problem here on Earth too.

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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). Then we must toughen GPS signals against attacks.

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FCC Opens Inquiry into GPS Backup

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WASHINGTON, March 27, 2025 – The Federal Communications Commission moved Thursday to open an inquiry into alternatives or backups to the Global Positioning System. The system currently runs on government satellites.