Comments on: Block III GPS satellite prototype starts testing http://www.slashgear.com/block-iii-gps-satellite-prototype-starts-testing-13201921/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 17 May 2012 17:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/block-iii-gps-satellite-prototype-starts-testing-13201921/#comment-163274 Anonymous Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:10:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=201921#comment-163274 Ah, so they meant that this one satellite (though if it’s not going up into space, can it be called a satellite?) for testing will not go into space.  Perhaps it’s just my reading comprehension abilities, but I think the article could use some editing to make things more clear; the last paragraph seems like a bunch of sentences were just thrown together without consideration.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/block-iii-gps-satellite-prototype-starts-testing-13201921/#comment-163270 Anonymous Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:05:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=201921#comment-163270 Seems like it will just be used for testing on the ground. 

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/block-iii-gps-satellite-prototype-starts-testing-13201921/#comment-163252 Anonymous Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:10:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=201921#comment-163252 “This satellite will not be used in space.”

????  Ummm…by definition, aren’t satellites used in space?  Where else would they be used?  And the very next sentence says that it will go into orbit…but where is it going to orbit if not in space?

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