Commercial applications of the Navstar Global Positioning System
Abstract
The characteristics and operation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) are described. The benefits GPS will provide to civilian air, sea, land, and space travel are discussed. Specific commercial applications for the satellite system, which include air traffic control, time synchronization, and oil exploration, are analyzed.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report A
- Pub Date:
- December 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985STIA...8634112M
- Keywords:
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- Global Positioning System;
- Navstar Satellites;
- Space Commercialization;
- Air Traffic Control;
- Commercial Spacecraft;
- Oil Exploration;
- Portable Equipment;
- Synchronism;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking