Global positioning system gps is a satellite based tracking technology that is used for navigation by road sea and air.
Original gps system.
1974 the branches of the military after having worked on a gps system for the past 11 years launch the first satellite of a proposed 24 satellite gps system called navstar.
It is one of the global navigation satellite systems gnss that provides geolocation and time information to a gps receiver anywhere on or near the earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to.
The inventors hall of fame is clear that as the program s first manager he has been the chief architect of gps throughout the system s conception engineering development and implementation this has also earned parkinson the title the father of gps.
The history of gps has its roots in the very first satellite placed in space by the former soviet union in 1957.
The satellite and.
Yet did you know that you get through your daily activities using an internal gps that s just as sophisticated as the man made ones.
Parkinson was at the forefront of the navstar gps joint program office from 1972 to 1978.