The Department of Defense (DOD) initiated the Navigation System with Timing And Ranging (NAVSTAR) Global Positioning System (GPS) in 1973. The DOD developed it because at a cost of over twelve billion dollars the government had the monetary resources to achieve idealistic goals of national defense. The GPS Master Control Station controls NAVSTAR GPS, which is at Falcon Air Force Base outside Colorado Springs, Colorado. This satellite system is used to determine the speed and position …showed first 75 words of 3518 total…

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