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Anyone else confused by the GPS sensor going into orbit?
by mtdev 14y ago
Anyone else confused by the GPS sensor going into orbit?
- psycovic23 14y agoGPS can be used on board to do low earth orbit determination.
- sebbi 14y agoDoes that really work? I thought GPS stops working above 18000 meters. At least the ones from sparkfun (their prototype hardware looks like sparkfun stuff) ...
- joelspark 14y agoThe commercial GPS sensor is more for testing on the receiver properties, it won't give location data. Location data will come from a space-rated GPS we have in the bus. As long as you're below the GPS constellation (at around 26000 km: http://www.navipedia.net/index.php/GPS_Space_Segment http://www.navipedia.net/index.php/GPS_Space_Segment), and you use a GPS that doesn't have the altitude restriction, you can use it for orbit location determination. Cheers, Joel