Does my phone connect with the GPS satellites or through another system? How does GPS handle so many pings?
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GPS doesn’t communicate with your phone.
GPS satellites basically scream what time it is, and your phone listens. If your phone knows which satellite it heard and where it’s supposed to be, and combines that with several other “screams” it can do some cool math to figure out where you are based on the time differences between the several satellites it heard
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