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Re:China's version of GPS now has more satellites than US or... by dragonsh on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @05:54AM (#20745183)
Wouldn't it be nice instead of countries an open academic agency launch a series of open source satellites for locations. Hopefully likes of apple, Google, Microsoft, alibaba, benz, BMW, Toyota, Amazon, Qualcomm, European space agency can fund it.

But I doubt it will happen as it's considered more strategic investment with military implications. But I am still hopeful like internet(which was designed for military purpose but now controlled by civilian authorities), locations can be free off selfish national interests.

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Re:China's version of GPS now has more satellites than US or... by ksec on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:09AM (#20745245)
Something SpaceX could consider? Given their ambition with Satellite Internet backbone.
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Re:China's version of GPS now has more satellites than US or... by dragonsh on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:39AM (#20745392)
Yeah hopefully there can be a consortium of Automobile manufacturers, internet companies and academia which can launch such a constellation of open source satellites for location services. Hopefully that can be combined with terrestrial peer to peer network to make sure it works even if military or specific nation wants to block it.
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Re:China's version of GPS now has more satellites than US or... by raihansaputra on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @07:10AM (#20745552)
IATA would also be a suitable member. All civilian aircraft still rely on the unencrypted part of these GNSS systems AFAIK.
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Re:China's version of GPS now has more satellites than US or... by yoz-y on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @07:06AM (#20745531)
I know nothing about satellites but couldn't the Starlink constellation be used for positioning in some way? It already has twice the amount of satellites and will have an order of magnitude more than any other current positioning system.
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