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Europe Reluctantly Chooses SpaceX to Launch Its GPS Satellites (gizmodo.com)
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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.

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[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] baru@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The generic term is not GPS, it's GNSS.

[–] anlumo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe that would be an argument if they used lower-case global positioning system rather than specifically GPS.