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Lost in space: Farm tech hit by satellite failure

Wade Stephens

PRECISION farming across much of Australia came to a temporary halt this week, after the unexpected failure of a satellite. British company Inmarsat’s I-4 F1 satellite had an outage, disrupting GPS signals across swathes of the Asia-Pacific region for close to 48 hours. One of the consequences was some GPS-enabled agriculture equipment used for precise […]

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