GPS Backup Analysis Stays on Track – Inside GNSS

April 8, 2020

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Image: Joint Base Cape Cod, Photo by Staff Sgt. Thomas Swanson, 102nd Intelligence Wing

Blog Editor’s Note: This is a little-appreciated but very important national security effort. Very good to see that it is moving forward. Not all heroes wear capes.

GPS Backup Analysis Stays on Track

SIG 20200407 GPS analysis on Track ART

Image: NASA’s Langley Research Center courtesy of NASA.

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