To: Poohbah
Seems this article disagrees with you.
From the 1991 Gulf War till now, all the US military operations would have been impossible without GPS
17 posted on
09/29/2003 3:51:15 PM PDT by
UCANSEE2
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To: Poohbah
This is a space technology put into use by the US military in 1973, which was mainly composed of 24 satellites orbiting around the earth, sending out continuously radio signals of a certain frequency from a height about 17,000 kilometers above ground.
and....
The Galileo project, involving an investment estimated at 3.6 billion Euro, is made up of 30 satellites distributed in three orbits at a height of 24,000 kilometers.
18 posted on
09/29/2003 3:55:24 PM PDT by
UCANSEE2
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To: UCANSEE2
Seems this article disagrees with you.Do you accept the word of the People's Daily as absolute truth?
23 posted on
09/29/2003 4:21:06 PM PDT by
Poohbah
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