The U.S. military's newest Global Positioning System navigation
satellite is suffering from unusual signal distortions that will keep
it out of service for at least six months, the Air Force announced
Tuesday.

"The signal distortion was initially observed as an elevation-
dependent bias in ranging measurements from GPS monitor stations," the
Air Force said in a written statement from the Space and Missile
Systems Center.

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