Does anyone remember Chicken Little? I think he was the chicken who felt the first Canadian snow fall of the season and mistaken it for the sky falling… After all what would you think. The poor chick is born 2 or 3 months earlier in the middle of summer…along comes fall… The first change of weather in September and you get a big dump of snow… Process this with a bird size brain and there you go… The sky must be falling.
NO… The GPS satellites will stay in the sky!
It has been reported that some of the GPS satellites in the sky are reaching their end of life. However, reports from the US government have mentioned that there are more satellites in the sky than ever before.
24 satellites are required in orbit in order to maintain accuracy acceptable to commercial and military needs. There are currently 34 so although we may experience degradation over the short term the system will remain functional.
Here is a link to an article on the subject which was posted May 21, when I first posted this blog.
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=650277B6-1A64-67EA-E43C4F57008DA7A1
The need for GPS is paramount. The people of the world need GPS technology including the US government, Airlines and other aircraft industries, ship navigation, oil and gas, mining, sporting industries. The list goes on and on. The really neat thing is that this system is so important that the European Union has developed a new system just to compete called the Galileo system. So do not worry the sky will not fall…and yes you will find your way home, find that important fishing hole, and record that all important extra mile for your tax reimbursement.
-Chris Pinter, President of Quino Solutions Inc.
