Then, in 1973, a group of Pentagon officials decided to create a "defense navigation satellite system," laying the groundwork for a system called Navstar-GPS — what we now know simply as GPS.

It was the Department of Defense, after all, that developed and built the web of navigation satellites that became the NAVSTAR GPS system. The military has maintained control of the GPS system.

NavStar Technologies Announces Key Details on the Feature-Rich Voice Navigator™ Personal Navigation Device NavStar Technologies (Pink Sheets: NVST) today announced the Voice Navigator™, a compact, ...

Dinner presentations made by various team members reviewed the history of the Navstar GPS and touched upon the rapid growth of the digital revolution that has made the GPS a household word.

Navstar's control system consists of four ground antennas and five monitoring stations that use high- fidelity GPS receivers to passively track the satellites' military P (Y) and civilian L2C ...

NTS-2 was the first demonstration satellite in the NAVSTAR GPS constellation managed by the NAVSTAR GPS Joint Program Office at the Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base ...

Three new GPS Interface Specification documents have been issued by the Civil Global Positioning System Service Interface Committee: Navstar GPS Space Segment/Navigation User Interfaces (IS-GPS-200H, ...

In 1978, the year that the U.S. Department of Defense launched the first NAVSTAR GPS satellite (“NAVSTAR” was later dropped from the system’s name), Neil Young sang “Four Strong Winds” (originally ...

US hegemony isn’t limited to action movies and fast food joints: The nation’s global positioning system, Navstar, has long been the preeminent satellite navigation service — and the savior ...

NTS-2 was the first demonstration satellite in the NAVSTAR GPS constellation managed by the NAVSTAR GPS Joint Program Office at the Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base ...