Re: GMS with GPS on planets with no GPS

Hi,

If your fleet of starships had the transmitters on board, then
it would only take as long as it would to arrive in orbit, i.e.
it would be operational before the grunts hit the ground.

Cheers,
Tony Christney

On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 09:12  PM, Andrew Martin wrote:

> Beth wrote:
>>> They'd be launched with maybe a GPS targeting solution...
>
>> What happens on planets with no GPS? How quickly would GPS be set up?
>
> I'd suggest that one needs global space superiority to put in a GPS
> satellite constellation around a new planet. Probably a week or two,
if 
> one
> has the necessary satellites, in my opinion.
>
> Other wise, one could do it with local/overhead space superiority, by
> emiting GPS signals from orbiting space transports. Perhaps military
> transports would have GPS transmitters on board? Almost certainly 
> encrypted
> transmissions.
>
> I'd think that a GPS satellite would be relatively small, perhaps 
> equivalent
> to a size one vehicle for DS2, and needing equivalent room in a 
> transport.
>
> Andrew Martin
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