Mon, Jun 06, 2011
Aero-Linx!
Scouring the information super airways can sometimes be a tough,
if educational, task for the Aero-News staff... but it also allows
us to check out some truly neat and exciting sites, so it's not
that bad a gig. On any given day, we may check dozens (and often
hundreds) of different sources for story ideas, and facts
confirmation. And, as is the nature of our business, much of this
is done on the Internet.
The ANN gang decided we probably shouldn't keep some of the neat
sites, info resources, and organizations we've discovered to
ourselves... so we decided to bring you Aero-Linx. These are the
sites that WE check out -- when we need added perspective, a new
spin on a day's topic... or just want to escape into
cyber-aero-space for awhile.
Look for some of our favorite sites, coming each day to ANN via
Aero-Linx.
Suggestions for future Aero-Linx
segments are always welcome, as well.
Aero-Linx: Coalition to Save
Our GPS
Representatives of a wide variety of industries and companies
have joined the Coalition to Save Our GPS to
resolve a serious threat to the reliability and viability of the
Global Positioning System (GPS) - a national utility upon which
millions of Americans rely every day. To safeguard GPS, the
Coalition seeks a number of remedies from the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC), which recently granted a waiver to
a company called LightSquared that allows them to repurpose the
satellite spectrum immediately neighboring that of the GPS.
LightSquared plans to transmit ground-based radio signals that
would be one billion or more times more powerful as received on
earth than GPS's low-powered satellite-based signals, potentially
causing severe interference impacting millions of GPS receivers -
including those used by the federal agencies, state and local
governments, first responders, airlines, mariners, civil
engineering, construction and surveying, agriculture, and everyday
consumers in their cars and on handheld devices.
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