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Re: Averaging sights on commercial vessels

From: Alexandre Eremenko (no email)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 19:25:47 EDT

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    So early??!
    I recall that the first artifricial satellite (the "Sputnik")
    was launched in 1957.
    Alex.

    On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Stacy Hanna wrote:

    > Navy ships started using Sat Nav in 1962 or 1964
    > depending on the source
    > you use. It was released for commercial and public use
    > in 1967 however
    > it was the early to mid 70's before its use outside of the
    > military
    > became widespread due to the cost of the receivers.


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