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Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Galileo Still up in the Air Hampered by financial delays and infighting among its private investors, the European Union has decided to build its 30-satellite Galileo navigation system entirely with public funds.
InternetNews December 26, 2007	Russia's Rival GPS System Nears Completion Russia successfully launched a rocket on Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival America's GPS.
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 James Oberg	Russian Global Navigation System, GLONASS, Falling Short The GLONASS system's accuracy, reliability, and consumer appeal are in question.
IEEE Spectrum December 2006 Seema Singh	India Shoots for the Moon It is also becoming a player in the satellite launch business.
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Scientific American December 2008 Mark Fischetti	How GPS Units Work How handheld global positioning system devices can determine your position on Earth -- even when indoors.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Lockheed Martin launches modernized satellite series Spacecraft in the modernized series are designed to benefit the military with two new signals, improved encryption, and anti-jamming capabilities.
Wired August 2002 Oliver Morton	Europe's New Air War Why are US allies building their own global positioning system? Call it a declaration of independence.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005	Lockheed Martin Picks Sypris for Satellite Cards Engineers at Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems will use the cards in its A2100 commercial satellites and for various government programs.
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 Arik Hesseldahl	The Paperless Map Is the Killer App Forget media downloads. Cell customers really want GPS and navigation features.
AskMen.com	China Building Space Port China broke ground on its fourth space center Monday, highlighting the country's soaring space ambitions six years after it sent its first man into orbit.
PC Magazine August 16, 2006 Sascha Segan	Expert View: Monitor Your Kids, via Cell Being able to call your children anywhere -- knowing they can call you, too -- helps parents sleep better at night.
Popular Mechanics May 21, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Will Obama Kill Navigation Backup System as GPS Threatens to Fail? Obama's budget attempts to axe LORAN-C, a navigation backup program, even as experts at the Government Accountability Office sound warnings about satellite reliability. What will happen if GPS fails?
The Motley Fool July 21, 2005 Rich Smith	Dueling Fools: Sirius Bear When you're managing a public company, it's not just prudent to insure your business assets. It's your fiduciary duty to protect your shareholders' investment by insuring the three satellites on which your business depends.
National Defense August 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Force Budget Ax Aimed at Big-Ticket Satellites The U.S. Air Force is hoping to save hundreds of millions of dollars by converting three of its costliest satellite programs into fixed-price contracts.
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson	New Satellites to Keep Watch Over Space-Based Systems Two new satellites may be launched later this year that will help the U.S. defense community better understand what is happening to the multi-million dollar spacecraft it depends on.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2006 Rich Smith	Boeing's Risky Win A satellite deal kicks off 2006 with a bang. But by 2008, will Boeing be stuck holding three orphaned satellites destined for a buyer that went bankrupt two years before the first unit was ever even put into orbit? Investors, take note.
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright	'Wi-Fi in the Sky' The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving forward with a space program that could revolutionize the way satellites are procured and deployed.
Entrepreneur January 2006 Jill Amadio	Know Your Way Around? Staying on track gets a whole lot easier as GPS makes its way into the latest vehicles.
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 David Schneider	Iridium Will Host Science Payloads New satellites will give space and wattage for Earth-sensing experiments.
National Defense August 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Industry May Have Answer to Weather Forecasting Blind Spot The United States faces a gap in future weather forecasts. From less accurate to untimely predictions, there could be dire consequences for the U.S. population and economy, warned a recent Government Accountability Office report.
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Can DARPA Rescue the Pentagon From Its Acquistion Doldrums? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a program last year to figure out how to build complex weapons five times faster than before. Now comes word that they also intend to revolutionize the way the military buys communications satellites.
National Defense June 2004 A. Duffy Baker	Military to Increase Dependence on Commercial Communications The satellite communications industry is bullish about future growth in military business.
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2010 D.J. Hopson	Addicted to Satellites? Air Force Searches For Alternatives to GPS Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Norton Schwartz, gave voice to a chink in the U.S. military's armor, one that many know about but few like to discuss in public: Without satellites, modern militaries lose most of their edge.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Demand for Military Satellites Shows No Sign of Slowing Down The use of space systems in military operations has surged during the past decade and this growth shows no signs of slowing down, according to an industry study.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Report: Facebook Probably Will Not Launch Internet Satellites After All Facebook's secretive, ambitious plans to build satellites that would bring Internet service to the world's poorest countries has reportedly been cancelled.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Export Rules Under Fire for Eroding U.S. Space Industry Restrictions on exports of U.S. space technology have spurred a global demand for products made outside the United States.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John Keller	Navigation and guidance meets sensor fusion Knowing where you are and where you are going no longer involves only the Global Positioning System (GPS); systems designers are integrating a growing number of sensors and data-fusion algorithms to create fool-proof, jam-proof, real-time positioning information.
National Defense April 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Satellite Shortages May Choke Off Military Drone Expansion It is a perennial problem in military operations that there is never enough satellite capacity to satisfy commanders' gargantuan appetite for voice and data communications.
National Defense January 2015 Stew Magnuson	Air Force Space Programs on Hold as New Architecture Studied The Air Force is in the throes of conducting several studies that service officials say may lead to a radically new space architecture. Meanwhile, getting space system acquisition right is more important than ever.
BusinessWeek January 29, 2007 Stephen H. Wildstrom	Easy Ways To Find Your Way Navigation devices cost less now, and cell-phone services work almost as well.
PC World January 2004 Tracey Capen	Find the Way With GPS Navigation devices keep you on track on unfamiliar ground.
Popular Mechanics February 2009 Roxana Tiron	As Satellite Program Fails, New Plans Arise to Take its Place The Pentagon needs quick ways to get small satellites into space to fill a shortfall in battlefield communication.
PC Magazine October 12, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	My Orbit: Send Your Own Satellite For about $40,000, students and organizations can send their own satellites into orbit around the Earth through the CubeSat Project.
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna	Satellite Company Claims It Can Prevent Weather Data Gap Executives at PlanetIQ, a joint venture by several space companies, say they can solve the problem by launching a constellation of 12 low-earth orbit satellites that use a method called GPS radio occultation.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John Keller	NASA plans laser-based satellite-tracking network NASA optoelectronics experts are making plans to build a new ground-based global network that uses green laser beams to track orbiting satellites and to study Earth.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2004 John S. McClenahen	New Space For Satellites Spectrum Astro's manufacturing and test facility in Gilbert, Ariz., is "go" for business.
The Motley Fool September 2, 2005 Rich Duprey	High Altitude Merger Intelsat's acquisition of PanAmSat sparks consolidation rumors. With demand for satellite services swelling and demand for video services expected to grow 10% this year, investors should expect to see even more high-flying mergers.
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming -- From Space The first of several satellites designed to monitor Earth's greenhouse gases has reached orbit and will begin collecting data in the coming months.
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson	Military Space Communications Lacks Direction, Critics Say The Defense Department is at a standstill when it comes to figuring out what it will require to maintain its future military space communications architecture, both industry and government officials said at a recent industry conference -- and nobody seems to be in charge.
IEEE Spectrum November 2012 Tekla S. Perry	Navigating the Great Indoors The smartphone industry is gearing up to get you around when out of sight of GPS satellites
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National Defense October 2015 Allyson Versprille	Analysts: U.S. Must Ramp Up Space Program The United States needs to put more emphasis on advancing space-based capabilities if it hopes to maintain its strategic advantage over China, analysts said.
National Defense September 2015 Graham Kilmer	Defense Leaders Make Renewed Push For Operationally Responsive Space The Defense Department is eyeing small satellites and new launch systems as potential ways to maintain U.S. space resilience.
Wired December 2004 Bruce Sterling	The New Space Race Americans might wonder why developing countries like India and China would spend precious resources in space. But those countries have good reasons - more compelling ones than the US has.
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