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I worked at one of the major GPS manufacturers as a hardware/firmware designer and we stopped tracking above a certain altitude and over a certain velocity due to government policy. I remember one time there was a bug report from a customer complaining that our GPS would not work after mach 2 or some extreme speed. This ended up being a "qualified" foreign government client, so a new firmware version was sent which removed the restriction.


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