Timeline for Why does the Global Positioning System include particular numbers of satellites?
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| Dec 4 at 23:11 | comment | added | John Doty | @NuclearHoagie That's the point. It was an engineering problem with murky answers, not a math abstraction with a precise answer. The OP seems to assume it was the latter. | |
| Dec 4 at 14:10 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | This answer could be improved by mentioning some of the relevant metrics or what aspects of the design didn't match the implementation. As it stands now the answer is basically, "they tried some stuff on paper, knew it would be wrong anyway, and went with whatever seemed best", which has nothing at all to do with GPS and describes basically every engineering problem ever. | |
| Dec 4 at 3:05 | comment | added | jmoreno | Also worth mentioning that there is a minimum number to be useful, so not worth doing if the mission didn’t commit to doing at least that many with an acceptable level of redundancy. | |
| Dec 3 at 14:32 | comment | added | H105 | Thank you. It's quite practical, I didn't consider this aspect. Maybe I'm too obsessed with calculation. | |
| Dec 3 at 13:53 | history | answered | John Doty | CC BY-SA 4.0 |