Global Positioning System (GPS)

Introductionto the

Global Positioning System

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IDEAS OF POSITIONING. EFFORT OF US DEPT.’S DEFENCE LAUNCHING DNSS.(DEFENCE NAVIGATION

SATTELITE SYSTEM) EARLY PHASE 17 SETALLITES. PENTAGONS 24 SETALLITES. TADAYS 29 SETALLITES(BLOCK II VERSION) FIRST GPS SETALLITE 1978 PHASE I BLOCK I

LATER IT WAS INCRESED BY 9 MORE SETALLITES.


Control Segment

Space Segment

User Segment

Monitor Stations

GroundAntennas

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Kwajalein Atoll

US Space Command

Hawaii

Ascension Is.

Diego Garcia

Cape Canaveral

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Military.. Search and rescue. Disaster relief. Marine, aeronautical and terrestrial navigation. Remote controlled vehicle and robot guidance. Satellite positioning and tracking. Shipping. Geographic Information Systems (GIS).


Position and waypoint coordinates.

The distance and direction between any two waypoints, or a position and a waypoint.

Travel progress reports.

Accurate time measurement.


it is received, multiplied by the speed of light, enables a GPS receiver to accurately calculate the distance between it and each satellite, provided that several factors are met.

Those factors are:

The receiver is somewhere on this sphere.


Global Positioning System (GPS)

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