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Why is ESA launching satellites for the US military Global Positioning System?
The headline has been dumbed down for Americans who think all global sat nav is “GPS.”
That said, if you read the article, is does say that this is for Galileo, not GPS.
Yawn.
Its a global positioning system, which has become a generic term (and has been since the late 90's). Just because you use the term "satnav" doesn't mean everyone does.
That term never caught on in the US, and was hardly used even 30 years ago (I say this as someone who adopted portable satnav as soon as it was available to consumers).
But it's not GPS. When referring to a generic system they use GNSS as abbreviation.
Said no one ever...