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To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (1852)	11/17/1997 6:36:00 PM
From: arun gera	Respond to of 3506

Talking about Comdex, this announcement may be relevant. By the way, IBM also seems to be involved in making a GPS card. Does anybody know whether IBM is doing it all in-house? Also, IBM's Voice Recognition systems may be incorporated in a car-navigation system. Here is the press release... biz.yahoo.com

To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (1852)	11/17/1997 6:59:00 PM
From: arun gera	Respond to of 3506

Satellite Navigation to track Spacecrafts? Using GPS to track spacecraft/satellites is a newly accepted application of GPS. Strangely, the number of satellites planned to be launched in the next 10 years (especially if you count Teledesic) is in the same order of magnitude as the number of jet planes to be built by Boeing during that period. Also, at this high end application, Trimble's Tan Vector product may become a competitive product. Here is an excerpt from today's newswire relating to use of advanced navigation equipment in Space shuttle Atlantis. >>Atlantis is also set to become the first orbiter to be guided solely by satellite-based navigation. The current TACAN navigation system will be removed and replaced with a triply-redundant system that operates through signals from the Boeing-built Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, the world's most accurate navigation system. The three-string GPS system will provide accurate vehicle attitude and location data. It promises to reduce Shuttle program costs by eventually allowing removal of several ground stations at NASA KSC as well as at the trans-Atlantic abort landing sites, which are becoming obsolete and costly to maintain. Together with other planned navigation enhancements, the three-string GPS system could one day enable Shuttle landings in poor visibility conditions. >>