[time-nuts] iGPS?
Bob Camp
kb8tq at n1k.org
Sun May 17 22:10:48 EDT 2015
Hi
“Orders of magnitude” more accurate …
Right now, you can get around ~1 M in most areas. One order of magnitude would be <10 cm.
More than one order of magnitude would be <10 mm. To me “orders” implies more than two, so that
would be <1 mm.
I guess everybody can toss out all their multi band GPS gear, there’s no need for it anymore. No need
to put up all those expensive block III GPS sat’s either :)
hmmmmm……I do believe the marketing boys have been playing with the numbers. You would have to start
from a >50 M error to get them to make much sense based on what they are doing.
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If you dig a bit more, Apple bought Coherent Navigation almost a half year ago. The main purpose appears
to be merging their mapping software into Apple’s ill-fated maps program. Given that Iridium is a “pay’
service (as in $$$$$) you probably will not see it in run of the mill cell phones very soon ….
Bob
> On May 17, 2015, at 7:07 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone know anything about "iGPS"? Apparently the Iridium low orbit
> communications sats are now modified via software update to send
> signals that when combined with GPS allow for a receiver that is MUCH
> more precise and harder to jam and can work in urban areas better.
> Apple just bought a company that is building iGPS receivers. Looks
> like something that they might want to put inside a cell phone but
> when you have an orders of magnitude important in position you'd
> expect better timing too, or so I would think.
>
> Seems like a very smart idea if all that was required was a software
> upload to existing spacecraft. From what I read this is real, not a
> proposal another are real receivers being tested.
>
>
> --
>
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
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