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April 08, 2014

Satellite Navigation Failure Confirms Urgent Need for Backup
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 08, 2014
The world's global positioning industry watched in disbelief on April 2, 2014, as all of the 24 GLONASS satellites that make up Russia's equivalent of the GPS system failed at once. This unprecedented and deeply worrying total disruption of what is one half of the world's operational global navigation satellite constellations shook the industry, and unequivocally confirmed the public warnings that have been voiced for years by Locata Corporation and other prominent industry experts. "There is no w ... read more

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