The race to find GPS alternatives

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SoftTalker · 14s ago

How good are accelerometers these days? With a known starting point, map data, a good clock, and accelerometers you should be able to compute your position using dead reckoning.

infocollector · 2m ago

The problem I see with investing in such technologies:

  1. Satellites are too far to fight anything on ground (Power per unit area (i.e., intensity) decreases as the square of the distance)
  2. If the Satellites are relaying to things on the ground, they are also relaying their location (easy adversarial targets)
  3. In a war (they mention Ukraine in the article), first thing that is toast is these satellites.

I don't think this is the right replacement for GPS. Perhaps someone here can correct me if I am wrong?

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The race to find GPS alternatives

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