Who owns and placed the Global Positioning Satalite into orbit?
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The CIA did it to track the implants we received at birth...
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GPS is short for global positioning system. GPS devices tell you your exact longitude and latitude. GPS is a satellite-based radio navigation system developed and operated by the US Department of Defense (DOD).\nThe US military refers to it as NAVSTAR GPS. This is a satellite navigation system used for determining one's precise location and providing a highly accurate time reference almost anywhere on Earth or in Earth orbit. It uses an intermediate circular orbit (ICO) satellite constellation of at least 24 satellites.
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Go here and register ( Free )..Plug in your location.\nThe site tracks several satellites and the space station.\n\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com
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A satellite is the moon of a planet.
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There are more than 800 active satellites currently in orbit. They represent four percent of the total number of objects currently cataloged by the U.S. space surveillance network; the rest includes abandoned satellites, spent rocket boosters, and other debris.
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Google Earth uses the satelite imaging technology.. The photos were taken from the satelites which orbit the Earth. Some pictures were taken from aircrafts. Some areas are much detailed compared to others. The key cities and countries do have street names and roads including the business establishments around. The pictures are mosaiced into a big world globe. It was beleived as said in the Google's site that the photos were 3 years old, others are 2 years old.
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7 satelites at least.\nFiring nuke? not necessary..the nukes are carried by vehicle.... totaly undetectable....and so much more cheaper...
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Almost all real-time sattilites are owned by the Military.  They don't want to share their technology with the general public.  They have a vested interest to protect their capibilities.  There hasn't been enough commercial demand for real time photos.  Plus, realtime only works when the sattelite is directly overhead.  Consumer users would have no control over what they see, or how far they zoom in, ect.
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(m)\n\nLaunching NASA \n\n"An Act to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes." With this simple preamble, the Congress and the President of the United States created the national Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958. NASA's birth was directly related to the pressures of national defense. After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold War, a broad contest over the ideologies and allegiances of the nonaligned nations. During this period, space exploration emerged as a major area of contest and became known as the space race. \n\nDuring the late 1940s, the Department of Defense pursued research and rocketry and upper atmospheric sciences as a means of assuring American leadership in technology. A major step forward came when President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved a plan to orbit a scientific satellite as part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) for the period, July 1, 1957 to December 31, 1958, a cooperative effort to gather scientific data about the Earth. The Soviet Union quickly followed suit, announcing plans to orbit its own satellite. \n\nThe Naval Research Laboratory's Project Vanguard was chosen on 9 September 1955 to support the IGY effort, largely because it did not interfere with high-priority ballistic missile development programs. It used the non-military Viking rocket as its basis while an Army proposal to use the Redstone ballistic missile as the launch vehicle waited in the wings. Project Vanguard enjoyed exceptional publicity throughout the second half of 1955, and all of 1956, but the technological demands upon the program were too great and the funding levels too small to ensure success. \n\nGo through the following link, it will very helpful to you\nhttp://www.policyalmanac.org/economic/archive/nasa_history.shtml
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If you go here, you will find out all about the Mio 268, and if you scroll to the bottom of the page , you will be able to click onto a multitude of SatNav systems :-\nhttp://www.lordpercy.com/mio_268_review.htm
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Dr. Ivan Getting was born in 1912 in New York City. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Edison Scholar, receiving his Bachelor of Science in 1933. Following his undergraduate study at MIT, Dr. Getting was a Graduate Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 1935.\n\nIn 1951, Ivan Getting became the vice president for engineering and research at the Raytheon Corporation. The first three-dimensional, time-difference-of-arrival position-finding system was suggested by Raytheon Corporation in response to an Air Force requirement for a guidance system to be used with a proposed ICBM that would achieve mobility by traveling on a railroad system.\n\nWhen Ivan Getting left Raytheon in 1960, this proposed technique was among the most advanced forms of navigational technology in the world, and its concepts were crucial stepping stones in the development of the Global Positioning System or GPS.\n\nUnder Dr. Getting’s direction Aerospace engineers and scientists studied the use of satellites as the basis for a navigation system for vehicles moving rapidly in three dimensions, ultimately developing the concept essential to GPS.
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United States Strategic Command tracks objects orbiting earth. An AN/FPS-85 phased array radar, located at Eglin Air Force Base, is the primary sensor used to track these objects. The radar is capable of tracking objects the size of a soccer ball at 20,000 miles. The quote following is from USSTRATCOM's website (see first link). The second link provides additional information on the Eglin RADAR. \n\nFWIW, the Eglin RADAR is now receiving a major hardware and software upgrade under the SENSOR contract. ITT is the prime contractor and Northrop Grumman is the major sub.\n\n"USSTRATCOM tracks about 8,500 man-made space objects, baseball-size and larger, orbiting Earth. The space objects consist of active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmentation. About 7 percent are operational satellites, 15 percent are rocket bodies, and about 78 percent are fragmentation and inactive satellites."
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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The Hubble Space Telescope is administered by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).  STScI is operated by the Associate of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), under a contract with NASA.  \n\nAll scheduling is done by STScI.  There is more information on their home page at:
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Sputnik 1957\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite#The_first_artificial_satellite
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For a small satellite we normally consider the following parameters:\nattitude determination and control \npropulsion \nelectrical power supply \ntelemetry, tracking, and command \ncommand and data handling \nstructure, adapter \nthermal control \n added to all this is cost of satellite and cost of launching. Usually such a small satellite stay in orbit between 6 and 18 months.
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Below GPS Satellites configuration if you have intended to buy......:-)\n\n- Name: NAVSTAR \n- Manufacturer: Rockwell International \n- Altitude: 10,900 nautical miles \n- Weight: 1900 lbs (in orbit)\n- Size:17 ft with solar panels extended \n- Orbital Period: 12 hours \n- Orbital Plane: 55 degrees to equitorial plane \n- Planned Lifespan: 7.5 years \n- Current constellation: 24 Block II production satellites \n- Future satellites: 21 Block IIrs developed by Martin Marietta\n-----------------------------