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The United States government has announced that the Air Force who are in charge of maintaining the GPS system have fallen behind in their responsibility. In fact the report stated that they are as much as three years behind. There is concern that the satellites could start to fail in 2010. There are currently 24 satellites in the system with 3 in reserve. The problem is that the sun degrades the components of the satellites and they start to fail. Hopefully this problem will be resolved before if becomes serious.

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