Agreed. The last 20 years have not been kind to this place.

Let the countries they're registered in bail them out.

I live in a city that is overwhelmed by cruise ship passengers every summer, and I'd be happy to see the cruise ship companies die. They do everything in their power to avoid paying any local taxes and fees, have bought out or driven out of business most local businesses that cater to their passengers, hire as few locals as possible during the tourist season, and a list of sins longer than I can remember.

And really, the list of reasons why not to bail them out should only need one item: They're not American companies. Let them as Liberia or whatever country they're registered in bail them out.

It's possible (for someone who knows a lot more than me) to build your own GPS receiver from first principals, which avoids the limits placed on commercial receivers (>1900km/s and/or >18,000m). Here's an example which uses a custom FPGA board, coupled to a Raspberry Pi. If a sufficiently dedicated and knowledgable person can build one at home, I suspect a satellite manufacturer could build an extra-terrestrial* version

(Apparently although GPS signals at the Earth's surface are around -130dBm, the noise floor is higher at -110dBm, which implies some RF wizardry I don't even begin to understand).

* in the literal sense of 'off Earth'

And/or, some power supplies might come with a switch to enable/disable the non-12V rails, so it can be used with either class of system.