MinimumPsychology916 t1_j5sj60m wrote on January 25, 2023 at 6:39 AM Reply to TIL that the European Union developed a satellite navigation system called Galileo, which can provide an accuracy of up to 20 cm (0.7ft) on smartphones, while GPS only reaches around 3 meters (10ft) by apeowl This is by design so that foreign militaries can't use the USA's GPS satellites to guide weapons, and the air force knows the programmed lag time of each satellite and military GPS units compensates for that Permalink 1
MinimumPsychology916 t1_j5sj60m wrote
Reply to TIL that the European Union developed a satellite navigation system called Galileo, which can provide an accuracy of up to 20 cm (0.7ft) on smartphones, while GPS only reaches around 3 meters (10ft) by apeowl
This is by design so that foreign militaries can't use the USA's GPS satellites to guide weapons, and the air force knows the programmed lag time of each satellite and military GPS units compensates for that