The hard way -- The new wave -- Out for a spin -- In transit -- Found in space -- The accidental navigators -- Long shots -- A map of one's own -- Checking in -- On the spot Summary "The story of the ...

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...

Introduction -- Twentieth-century navigating -- The origins of satellite navigation -- The birth of GPS -- A commercial market emerges : 1983-1995 -- Convergence : 1995-2015 -- European, Russian, and ...

GPS is an acronym for Global Positioning System. It is a satellite navigation system providing distance, time, and position measurements in the world coordinate system. To put it simply, it is a ...

Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, sponsored by Spain, mistakenly led him to the Americas instead of Asia. This initiated the Columbian Exchange, a vast transfer of plants, animals, and diseases ...

IN THE BEGINNING of the space age, there was only one space-based positioning technique: satellite Doppler. Shortly after the launch of the first satellite, Sputnik 1, on Oct. 4, 1957, it was realized ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Today, the Global Positioning System (GPS) is something that we take for granted. However, while we may think of it as a recent development, ...

Technology writer Bray asserts that "mankind has essentially solved the problem of location." It is now difficult, if not impossible, to get ourselves lost%E2%80 ...