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You are here: Home / AroundtheWeb / Celebrating 25 Years of Not Getting Lost Thanks to GPS

Celebrating 25 Years of Not Getting Lost Thanks to GPS

February 14, 2014 By LBSzone

If there was ever a justification needed for space technology, it’s that it keeps people like me from constantly being lost. These days, my smart phone is much better than me at getting around thanks to a fleet of satellites that tells it where it is at all times.Though not a particularly romantic anniversary, today marks 25 years since the first satellite in the U.S. Global Positioning System launched from Cape Canaveral, beginning the set up for one of the wonders of the modern world. In the two and a half decades since then, GPS has become inextricably embedded into just about everything we own, finding use in cartography, smart phone apps, geotagging and geocaching, disaster relief, and hundreds of other applications, while simultaneouslyraising privacy concerns.

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