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From: Stacy Hanna (no email)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 19:36:03 EDT
http://techdigest.jhuapl.edu/td1901/danchik.pdf
Sorry, I should have included the reference in my last message.
Stacy
-----Original Message-----
From: Navigation Mailing List
[mailto:] On Behalf Of Alexandre
Eremenko
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 19:26
To:
Subject: Re: Averaging sights on commercial vessels
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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