Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Pushes GPS Navigation Envelope

Credit: GPS: Boeing
A new constellation of four scientific satellites has broken three altitude and velocity records for GPS applications as it goes through deployment and checkout in a highly elliptical Earth orbit. The Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) has received GPS signals at an altitude of 70,000 km, well...

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