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Air Force Identifies Long Standing GPS Messaging Index Issue

Pat Host

Monday, March 23rd, 2015

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Air Force Identifies Long Standing GPS Messaging Index Issue

The Air Force said Sunday a Global Positioning System (GPS) message indexing error was recently identified and had gone unnoticed since 2013.The error, the service said in a statement, affects a limited number of active GPS IIF series satellites and does not degrade the accuracy of the GPS signal received by users around the globe. The issues appear to be related to the ground software that builds and uploads messages transmitted by the GPS constellation during regular system operations, although…

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