> They’ll just fire the team responsible for maintaining the birds and then act surprised when they degrade. AFAIK, the GPS system needs constant corrections,

> They’ll just fire the team responsible for maintaining the birds and then act surprised when they degrade. AFAIK, the GPS system needs constant corrections, uploaded periodically from its ground base stations. Without these corrections, it will degrade very quickly (the satellites would still work fine, but their position estimate would no longer be good enough).