Talk:List of GPS satellites

(Rated List-class, Low-importance)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Spaceflight, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of spaceflight on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.

List

This article has been rated as List-Class on the project's quality scale.

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Rocketry

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Rocketry, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of rocketry on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.

???

This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.

???

This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Which GPS satellites are currently in orbit?

I look at the table of satellite launches but I see no way to tell which satellites are currently in orbit. How can I tell which satellites are currently in orbit? RHB100 (talk) 20:32, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

I see that PRN 05 and PRN 08 are currently missing. All other PRN's from 1 to 32 are listed and there does not appear to be any repeats. Yet I have heard that there are 31 not 30 satellites in orbit. RHB100 (talk) 22:09, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Answer: Any info that you don't see you may be able to find through the external links. PRN 08 is currently assigned to SVN 38 (block IIA). PRN 05 used to be assigned to SVN 35 (block IIA) before SVN 35 was decommissioned. Then PRN 05 was assigned to the last launched satellite SVN 50 (block IIR-M). As satellites are frequently launched or decommissioned, the number "in orbit" changes from time to time, about 4 times so far this year. It is currently 31 although only 30 are currently set to "healthy." ----W. Kelley, USNO, 27 Aug 2009

↑Jump back a section

Focus

Should this list be renamed and refocussed so that it centres on the satellites themselves rather than their launches, as was done with list of GOES satellites? --G W… 14:52, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

↑Jump back a section

GPS 2F Series

Amazingly Wikipedia doesn't have anything (I can find) on the GPS 2F series which is an $8 billion 12-satellite upgrade which will bring civilian accuracy to within 2 feet. I would start an article but I am (considerably) confused on the naming structure for satellite articles.Americasroof (talk) 16:04, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

↑Jump back a section

Last modified on 26 April 2013, at 22:17