GPS is a space-based technology for everyday use. GPS stands for Global Positioning System and we'd be lost without it (quite literally). Originally called Navstar GPS, this space-based technology ...

NTS-2 was the first demonstration satellite in the NAVSTAR GPS constellation managed by the NAVSTAR GPS Joint Program Office at the Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base ...

By 1995, all 24 NAVSTAR satellites were in orbit, providing world-wide coverage 24 hours per day. Today, GPS technology is prominent in both military and civilian applications. From weapons ...

The Pentagon was counting on GPS to help solve this problem. s, which essentially keep time by measuring the oscillations of atoms. The clocks enable each satellite in the Navstar constellation to ...

Navstar I Is Launched In 1978, Placing The First Functional GPS Satellite In Orbit GPS took a huge step forward in the 1970s, ...

launch the first satellite of a proposed 24-satellite GPS system called NAVSTAR. The satellite, and many to follow, are meant to test the NAVSTAR concept. 1978-1985 The military launches 11 more ...

More robust and more accurate positioning systems are needed to meet the demands of the global economy—and Australia is set to enjoy the benefits of its very own system. Global Positioning ...

Col. Allan Ballenger, system program director at the Navstar GPS Joint Program Office, said the new IIR satellite marks the start of “a new era of GPS services for our military and civilian ...

In 1963 The Aerospace Corporation completed a study of the subject for the military, which laid the groundwork for the modern-day GPS. In 1974, the U.S. launched the first NAVSTAR test satellite.

then-US Deputy Secretary of Defense William Clements signed a memo approving the Defense Navigation Satellite Development Program, which eventually built what became known as Navstar GPS.

The GPS Directorate has approved a change to the Navstar GPS Control Segment to User Support Community Interfaces ICD-GPS-240 and ICD-GPS-870, reports the U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center. The ...

As that name suggests, it's similar to the United States' satellite global positioning system (GPS), which is known as Navstar. The U.S. and Russia view having their own GPS networks as a national ...