RE: "The Air Force is lying"

About UFOs too.

Either way, they are forced to lie to us. Its kind of how it works these days. They can't upright admit they screwed up so they feed AP a line of BS about how they can reactivate 3 old satellites. (which I don't doubt, but at what cost and effectiveness?)

So, With all the extra space debris from two satellites that impacted each other, Who is to say what could happen now? ( http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0902/11iridium/ )

The airforce is lying - the US Government accountability office report says that through 2010 and 2011 there is an 80-85% chance (depending on the month) that there will be 24 satellites in operation.

The committed level of service is 24 satellites with 95% reliability - so they're going to violate that already.

Also, there are currently 31-32 operational satellites depending on maintenance and maneuvering cycles. This means we are *ASSURED* to have *FAR WORSE* satellite availability in the future.

Granted beggars can't be choosers, but our lab is working hard towards using the Russian GLONASS system which is ascendent rather than collapsing (it collapsed in '01, but is much better now).

The airforce is lying.