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Why was the gps needed at first?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The military needed a method for determining position for naval assets and land assets using a common frame of reference. GPS was invented to serve this purpose. The USSR had a similar system called GLONASS that is still in operation. GPS was originally released to the civilian market as a dumbed down system, with military-grade precision signals being encrypted, but eventually the more accurate current GPS system was released to the public.

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