apeowl OP t1_j5ub2a9 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 4:54 PM

Reply to comment by GingerScourge in TIL that the European Union developed a satellite navigation system called Galileo, which can provide an accuracy of up to 20 cm (0.7ft) on smartphones, while GPS only reaches around 3 meters (10ft) by apeowl

Yeah ofc thats true, but 16 of the 31 GPS satellites that are currently operational have actually been launched after the start of Galileo in October 2011, and the oldest of the other 15 was launched in 1997. Also, they get software updates from time to time.