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1,127 words, approx. 4 pages The Global Positioning System (GPS) is undoubtedly one of the most practical of all satellite projects. It provides navigation and location information to other satellites, commercial airliners, cruise ships, land surveyors, map makers, bicyclists, and...
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Gps (Global Positioning System) Summary
769 words, approx. 3 pages Long before the space age, people used the heavens for navigation. Besides relying on the Sun, Moon, and stars, the early travelers invented the magnetic compass, the sextant, and the seagoing chronometer. Eventually, radio navigation in which a...
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Global Positioning System Summary
647 words, approx. 2 pages The Global Positioning System (GPS) allows users to pinpoint their location anywhere on Earth to within a few meters. GPS technology was developed for military use, but by the early twenty-first century it had acquired numerous civilian applications...
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523 words, approx. 2 pages The Global Positioning System (GPS) is comprises a group of 24 satellites that orbit Earth at 10, 907 nautical miles (20,200 km) above Earth. GPS satellites provide precise location information anywhere on Earth. Full accuracy only available to the...
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 The Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Utilizing a constellation of at least 24 Medium Earth Orbit satellites that transmit precise microwave signals, the system enables a GPS receiver...




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Global Positioning System
06/10/1996: 456 words, approx. 2 pages Pleasure boats, airplanes and trucks increasingly are equipped with electronic devices that calculate their position on the earth's surface to an accuracy of about 150 feet (military versions give a closer reading). They help in such tasks as navigation, "fleet management," in which dispatchers...
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Trimble--global positioning systems for excavators
07/01/2002: 424 words, approx. 1 pages CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2002 Trimble introduced a new version of its Site Vision global positioning systems (GPS) machine guidance and control system for excavating equipment. The system allows machine operators to accurately perform earth-- moving operations by placing the site design in the cab and...
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Police use GPS data in NY girl's slaying
8/17/2007: 365 words, approx. 1 pages Police used data from a global positioning system installed by a suspicious wife to charge a man with murdering the couple's 12-year-old baby sitter.George Ford Jr., 42, told police he was taking Shyanne Somers home the night of July 8 but took a detour to...
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Sun donates art of rival HP co-founders
12/27/2006: 255 words, approx. 1 pages For five months, Sun Microsystems Inc. owned a life-size painted cutout depicting the co-founders of its rival, Hewlett-Packard Co., the product of a zany, cross-country art project.Sun snapped up the painting for $6,000 in August after HP refused to buy it for the company lobby,...



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