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Atomic clocks! In space!! Sending out signals!!! At Earth!!!! A brief history and explanation.

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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
133

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Subjects

Global positioning system, navigation, research and development, satellite systems, time keeping

People

Roger Easton, David Packard, Brad Parkinson

Places

near-Earth space

Times

1970s to the mid 2010s

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Book Details

First Sentence

"Popular histories of America’s space program describe the decade of the 1970s as a fallow period."

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
List of tables
List of figures
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Series Foreword
1. Introduction
2. Twentieth-Century Navigating
3. The Origins of Satellite Navigation
4. The Birth of GPS
5. A Commercial Market Emerges: 1983–1995
6. Convergence: 1995–2015
7. European, Russian, and Other Satellite Systems
8. Conclusion
Further Reading
Timeline
Index
About Author

Edition Notes

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Cambridge, USA
Copyright Date
2018

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
910.285--dc23
Library of Congress
G109.5 .C47 2018

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Format
e-book
Pagination
133p
Number of pages
133

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL29802066M
ISBN 13
9780262350075

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