Impending GPS failure

[+curt&jen]

This is probably a tired subject by now, but I'm a little behind. I logged into the forums today expecting to see a sticky thread about the news reports that the GPS constellation is projected to gradually fall apart over the course of the next couple of years. Most of the online research I've done doesn't really turn up anything that concerns me though.

 

What's the latest on this?

 

Thanks.

[+Butano]

Check out the Air Force's response in this article Air Force Responds to GPS Outage Concerns. In a nutshell, the chances that GPS will fail is very unlikely. The chance that it could start performing at less than current performance (which is much better than the specification requires) is a possibility, but still not a probability.

[+Entropy512]

For a system as important to the military (and also now to civilians), there will be SOMETHING done (and probably already has been done) to mitigate risk.

 

I think the big news is that it's going to be a few years longer before civilians see L2C go hot.