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Technology Stocks : Orbital science (ORB)
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To: Richard B who wrote (1912)8/10/1998 10:38:00 PM
From: dwight martin  Read Replies (1) of 2394
 
Sirf engineers recently demonstrated a prototype device
that was able to begin reporting
location information almost instantly and could continue to
communicate with orbiting
satellites from the basement of a one-story parking garage.

Sounds like they have made several basic advances. I'm skeptical of this "demonstration," if there was one. Also, celphones can give position location already, altho perhaps not as precisely as GPS. Satphones can do this, too. In fact, ORBI once boasted of "intrinsic position location" via ORBCOMM.

First there was exact time, which has now become an essentially free utility. This is making it possible for precise 3-D position information to become almost free. If we can figure out what is next, mebbe we can make some $$!
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