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    A satellite navigation or satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geopositioning. A satellite navigation system with global...
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    Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) created by the European Union through the European Space Agency (ESA) and operated by the European...
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    A satellite navigation (satnav) device or GPS device is a device that uses satellites of the Global Positioning System (GPS) or similar global navigation...
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    Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), with an operational name of NavIC (acronym for Navigation with Indian Constellation; also, nāvik 'sailor'...
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    The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS; Chinese: 北斗卫星导航系统; pinyin: běidǒu wèixīng dǎoháng xìtǒng) is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned...
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  • Satellite navigation software or GNSS navigation software a category of software that provide positioning services by utilizing data from satellite navigation...
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  • lit. 'Global Navigation Satellite System') is a Russian satellite navigation system operating as part of a radionavigation-satellite service. It provides...
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    The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta...
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    The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation. It is also the...
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  • European Satellite Navigation Industries, formerly called Galileo Industries until legal action prompted a name change, was a joint venture of the companies...
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  • Satellite navigation solution for the receiver's position (geopositioning) involves an algorithm. In essence, a GNSS receiver measures the transmitting...
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  • Augmentation of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is a method of improving the navigation system's attributes, such as precision, reliability...
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    Celestial navigation is performed without using satellite navigation or other similar modern electronic or digital positioning means. Celestial navigation uses...
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    military satellite is an artificial satellite used for a military purpose. The most common missions are intelligence gathering, navigation and military...
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    NNSS (for Navy Navigation Satellite System), was the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally. The radio navigation system was primarily...
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    Michibiki (みちびき, "guidance"), is a four-satellite regional satellite navigation system and a satellite-based augmentation system developed by the Japanese government...
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    supplement and enhance the positional data available from global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs). A DGPS can increase accuracy of positional data...
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  • The GPS-aided GEO augmented navigation (GAGAN) is an implementation of a regional satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) by the Government of India...
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    GPS satellite blocks are the various production generations of the Global Positioning System (GPS) used for satellite navigation. The first satellite in...
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  • the first Soviet satellite navigation system, developed in the former Soviet Union. From 1967 to 1978 a total of 31 Zaliv satellites were launched onboard...
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    remote places. The signal delay from satellites and their orbit's predictability are used in satellite navigation systems, such as GPS. Crewed spacecrafts...
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    navigation system is part of the automobile controls or a third party add-on used to find direction in an automobile. It typically uses a satellite navigation...
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  • This is a list of notable commercial satellite navigation software (also known as GPS software) for various devices, with a specific focus on mobile phones...
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  • aircraft, and reduces sortie times. It uses both GLONASS satellite navigation and internal navigation systems, improving accuracy over extended distances....
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    The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) is a satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) developed by the European Space Agency and...
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    located. Weather satellites are also placed in this orbit for real-time monitoring and data collection, as are navigation satellites in order to provide...
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    needed] Satellite navigation systems send several signals that are used to decode the satellite's position, distance between the user satellite, and the...
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    of Sputnik also planted the seeds for the development of modern satellite navigation. Two American physicists, William Guier and George Weiffenbach, at...
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    European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Supervisory Authority (GSA) in 2004, reorganised into the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency...
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  • Terrain contour matching, or TERCOM, is a navigation system used primarily by cruise missiles. It uses a contour map of the terrain that is compared with...
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