Europe Reluctantly Chooses SpaceX to Launch Its GPS Satellites::Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to undertake its first launch of European satellites equipped with classified technology, specifically for the Galileo system.
Europe Reluctantly Chooses SpaceX to Launch Its GPS Satellites::Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to undertake its first launch of European satellites equipped with classified technology, specifically for the Galileo system.
The headline has been dumbed down for Americans who think all global sat nav is “GPS.”
That said, if you read the article, is does say that this is for Galileo, not GPS.
Alright but Global Positioning System is also a description of what all of them do, even if it’s the name of a specific constellation it’s not inaccurate to refer to the others as that. Even though it’s not technically correct it’s… actually I could argue that they’re all technically systems used to give positioning information globally.
The generic term is not GPS, it’s GNSS.
Maybe that would be an argument if they used lower-case global positioning system rather than specifically GPS.
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But it’s not GPS. When referring to a generic system they use GNSS as abbreviation.
Said no one ever…