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  2. Global Positioning System - Wikipedia

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    GPS receiver manufacturers design GPS receivers to use spectrum beyond the GPS-allocated band. In some cases, GPS receivers are designed to use up to 400 MHz of spectrum in either direction of the L1 frequency of 1575.42 MHz, because mobile satellite services in those regions are broadcasting from space to ground, and at power levels ...

  3. Galileo (satellite navigation) - Wikipedia

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    In 2010, the think-tank Open Europe estimated the total cost of Galileo from start to 20 years after completion at €22.2 billion, borne entirely by taxpayers. Under the original estimates made in 2000, this cost would have been €7.7 billion, with €2.6 billion borne by taxpayers and the rest by private investors.

  4. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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    Recent development also include the integration of ancient maps and modern scholar research combined with modern computer software to elaborate periodical history maps. Initiatives such as Euratlas History Maps (which covers the whole of Europe from the year 1 AD to the present), Centennia Historical Atlas (which covers Europe from the year ...

  5. Satellite navigation - Wikipedia

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    The United States' Global Positioning System (GPS) consists of up to 32 medium Earth orbit satellites in six different orbital planes. The exact number of satellites varies as older satellites are retired and replaced. Operational since 1978 and globally available since 1994, GPS is the world's most utilized satellite navigation system.

  6. History of the compass - Wikipedia

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    The first literary description of a compass in Western Europe was recorded in around 1190 and in the Islamic world 1232. [5] Dry compasses begin appearing around 1269 in Medieval Europe and 1300 in the Medieval Islamic world. [6] [7] [8] This was replaced in the early 20th century by the liquid-filled magnetic compass. [9]

  7. History of Europe - Wikipedia

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    The Ottoman wars in Europe marked an essential part of the history of the continent. The Holy Roman Empire was a limited elective monarchy composed of hundreds of state-like entities . A key 15th-century development was the advent of the movable type of printing press circa 1439 in Mainz, [ 51 ] building upon the impetus provided by the prior ...

  8. History of navigation - Wikipedia

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    Map of the world produced in 1689 by Gerard van Schagen. The history of navigation , or the history of seafaring , is the art of directing vessels upon the open sea through the establishment of its position and course by means of traditional practice, geometry, astronomy, or special instruments.

  9. Ptolemy's map of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The map of Ireland is included on the "first European map" sections (Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπης πίναξ αʹ, romanized: Eurōpēs pínax alpha or Latin: Prima Europe tabula) of Ptolemy's Geography (also known as the Geographia and the Cosmographia). The "first European map" is described in the second and third chapters of the work's ...