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Seen & Heard: Launching weather balloons and tracking endangered wildcats

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“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and unusual news stories involving the GNSS/PNT industry. Photo: Milos Bjelica/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images Drawing with GPS According to Guinness World Records, a 982.53-mile, seven-day…
GPS Week Rollover grounds Aussie weather balloons

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Launch of a weather balloon in Australia. (Photo: Townsville Meteorological Office/Bureau of Meteorology) The GPS Week Number Rollover, which took place April 6, has grounded the Bureau of Meteorology’s (BOM) weather balloons. The fault was caused by the rollover of the…