Thread: the GPS myth almost mythbusted
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Old August 24th 11, 02:06 AM posted to sci.physics.relativity,sci.physics,sci.math,sci.astro
Sam Wormley[_2_]
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Default the GPS myth almost mythbusted
On 8/23/11 2:19 PM, Martin Brown wrote:
It could all have been done by iterative empirically fitted engineering
corrections without any understanding of why beyond "that it works" but
scientists would then be looking for the root cause.

Actually not! Read the Interface Control Documents
http://www.gps.gov/technical/icwg/

http://www.gps.gov/technical/icwg/IS-GPS-200E.pdf