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Gurukul: Avnish Kumar Rana 07EGKIT013 Institute of Engineering & Technology, Kota

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite network operated by the U.S. Air Force to provide navigation to military and commercial users. It consists of 24-32 satellites in six orbital planes that transmit signals allowing GPS receivers to determine location, time, and velocity. Originally conceived in 1940, GPS uses atomic clocks precise to a billionth of a second and has become essential for saving lives as well as powering a multi-billion dollar industry, with receivers soon becoming as small as credit cards.

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Gurukul: Avnish Kumar Rana 07EGKIT013 Institute of Engineering & Technology, Kota

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite network operated by the U.S. Air Force to provide navigation to military and commercial users. It consists of 24-32 satellites in six orbital planes that transmit signals allowing GPS receivers to determine location, time, and velocity. Originally conceived in 1940, GPS uses atomic clocks precise to a billionth of a second and has become essential for saving lives as well as powering a multi-billion dollar industry, with receivers soon becoming as small as credit cards.

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Global Positioning System (GPS)

ABSTRACT

The Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite network is operated by the U.S. Air
Force to provide highly accurate navigation information to military forces around the
world. The network is also being used by a growing number of commercial products.

The GPS space segment consists of into six orbital planes, requiring a minimum of
four satellites in each to operate. The GPS control segment consists of five monitoring
stations three ground antennas & a Master Control station located at Schriever AFB in
Colorado. The NAVSTAR Global Positioning System is managed by the NAVSTAR
GPS Joint Program Office at the Space and Missile Systems Center, California.

The idea for a global positioning/navigation system was first proposed in 1940.
GPS makes it possible to answer the simple question “Where am I?” almost
instantaneously and with breathtaking precision. The new technology utilizes atomic
clocks that keep time to within a billionth of a second. They were created by scientists
who had no idea that the clocks would someday contribute to a global system of
navigation. Today, GPS is saving lives, helping society in many other ways & generating
jobs in a new multi-billion-dollar industry. Advances in integrated-circuit technology,
technology used to make computer chips soon will lead to GPS receivers and transmitters
the size of credit cards, so small and so inexpensive that virtually any vehicle can have
one installed and any person can carry one.

Its technology uses a constellation of between 24 and 32 Earth-orbiting satellites


that transmit microwave signals, which allow GPS receivers to determine their current
location, time and velocity.

Submitted by: Avnish Kumar Rana


07EGKIT013
Gurukul Institute of Engineering & Technology,
Kota

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