Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:45:27 -0500
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IGS Station Mail          20 Feb 11:45:33 PST 2008      Message Number 2085
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Author: Nature (forward by Jim Ray)

"India has a key satellite antenna stolen for scrap

A crucial Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna in
Bangalore has been stolen --- apparently for its scrap
value --- knocking India out of an international [IGS]
network of 'core' stations that provides data to
geoscientists around the globe.

. . . it will take a year to erect a new antenna in
the same location and make it operational."

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Published online 20 February 2008 | Nature 451, 879
(2008) | doi:10.1038/451879d

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080220/full/451879d.html