Level Comparison Field

In response to “Reusable Redux” (AW&ST Dec. 2, p. 21), I have to clarify the cost comparison made between the first GPS satellite launched in 1978 and that of the GPS III spacecraft. First, the 1978 satellite was a demonstration, not a production, satellite and had a design life of less than one...

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