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What is the typical altitude for a global positioning system satellite?
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Orbiting at an altitude of approximately 20,200 kilometers (12,600 miles or 10,900 nautical miles; orbital radius of 26,600 km (16,500 mi or 14,400 NM)), each SV makes two complete orbits each sidereal day.[10] The ground track of each satellite therefore repeats each (sidereal) day.
This is a quote from Wikipedia's article on GPS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
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Full form of GPS?
Global Positioning Satellite
What means GPS navigation?
Global Positioning Satellite. Actually it is Global Positioning System. but it is virtually the same thing.
When was the Global Positioning System first developed?
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How travel and mapping software are used?
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What is the difference between communications satellite and global positioning system?
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Global Positioning System
Do scientists use satellite data to predict earthquakes?
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GPS Global Positioning System
