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mmcwilliams
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You believe that GPS is hosted on servers in space?
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elcritch
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Technically, yes. Obviously stretches the normal definition of a server, but it is a computer controlled system "serving" a mostly digital signal.
https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/article/gps-iii-satellite-l...
mmcwilliams
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What people are describing here is the colloquial definition of "server", being compute hosted in space. Not a broadcast signal that is interpreted on Earth.
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